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Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended
- TheRealDunkirk 4y agoI don't get it. I think I'm batting .005 with getting a good result from Reddit's "hive mind." And Reddit spams my search results so much that it frequently takes up several of the top slots. The net-net is that I often include "-site:reddit.com" in my searches.
- crowbahr 4y agoI'm curious what the 995 bad results you're getting from reddit are.
- addingnumbers 4y agoReddit is big on cargo-cult troubleshooting, you can't show them a TCP windowing problem or path MTU detection failure without "try changing your DNS servers" or "disable auto-negotiate on your Ethernet port" getting a hundred upvotes.
- crowbahr 4y agoAh, I see. Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for... or even better what the specific web forums dedicated to that topic are for. But I also rarely encounter a problem that doesn't have an answer ready to hand. My experience with searching Reddit mostly comes for looking for basic shopping suggestions, specific item reviews, general knowledge type info. If you're looking for detailed and complex analysis of what's going on an open forum that rewards broadly appealing advice and answers is very obviously not the solution.
- TheRealDunkirk 4y ago> Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for You've hit one of my big beefs with the site. There was a window of a couple of months where it seemed like the ENTIRE first page of results for my programming searches were links to Reddit, which are WORSE than useless. It was clear to me that Reddit was spending INORDINATE amounts of money to have their results pushed to the top. I can't imagine what that had to be to beat out StackOverflow, but that's beside the point. I was already mad about their consumer product "review" cargo culting, but this experience put a chip on my shoulder about ALL of their results now.
- elicash 4y agoI was JUST researching whether air ducts should get cleaned from dust, and google results while mixed were mostly pretty good and gave a quality EPA page as result number one -- not a marketing blog. (Though the question and answer part of google was mixed with the number two question being answered by saying to have them cleaned every 2 to 3 years, which is crazy. Also, I think this crowd is savvier than most about knowing when a website is just marketing and when to ignore it.) But reddit still had much better information than google overall explaining experiences and why you almost certainly don't need them cleaned minus the 3 reasons EPA mentions.
- xkbarkar 4y agoI sometimes get poor quality reddit score higher than good quality stackoverflow results. I need another internet. The current one is broken.
- hexomancer 4y agoOr you could just add this to your chrome search engines and set the shortcut to r. Now you don't even have to press control. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s
- crossroads091 4y agoThe same works with Brave too! D'uh!
- Natfan 4y agoShould work for any Chromium-based browser, such as Edge, Vivaldi or Opera. One of the few good things that comes from homogenizing browsers under one engine: they all pretty much work the same.
- pawelduda 4y agoWhile I find the use case useful (I often skip the normal search and default to site:reddit.com/site:stackoverflow.com, etc.), it doesn't do enough for me to justify having yet another plugin in my browser. It could be replaced by a text-expansion tool. In my case, it is deep in my muscle memory so typing it by hand doesn't bother me. Maybe if this extension supported more types of filters commonly used (e.g. filetype/directory). Upvoted though for increasing awareness about this one simple trick.
- idontwantthis 4y agoReddit search is terrible, so you use Google to search Reddit. Google search is terrible for product reviews, so you use it to get to back to Reddit.
- Gualdrapo 4y agoYou can just combine the two, without the need of an extension - use Google to search within Reddit. Say you want to search Reddit for pancakes - your Google search would be pancakes site:reddit.com And Google will return the matches it found on reddit.com. Alas in what I've used it, it won't work with subreddits (like doing "pancakes site:reddit.com/r/pancakes")
- V1ndaar 4y ago> Alas in what I've used it, it won't work with subreddits (like doing "pancakes site:reddit.com/r/pancakes") I use that quite often to restrict to a subreddit and it works well in my experience.
- K5EiS 4y agosame, never had any problems adding subreddits to site: searches
- notRobot 4y agoCan also search like this: pancakes site:reddit.com intitle:"/r/memes" Will show results for pancakes from Reddit, from the memes subreddit.
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- anonymousab 4y agoYou can also include the subreddit in the site operator for the more lazy of us i.e. pancakes site:reddit.com/r/memes Can't force it to return the old.reddit.com versions, unfortunately.
- johndfsgdgdfg 4y agoThe better solution is not to use Google at all. Google invades our privacy and Google keep its users hostages for money. We've to stop Google at any cost.
- SquareWheel 4y agoMaking the same comment over and over again is really not adding anything to the discussion.
- amitlevy49 4y agoI'm actually working on an alternative to Google (though the goal being improved search, not improved privacy), I made this extension during one of the breaks from working on that
- titaniumtown 4y ago> not improved privacy gl
- btbtn 4y agoTo offer some alternative, startpage.com uses google search results and claims to be more privacy oriented.
- lloydatkinson 4y agoIt’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.
- pluc 4y agoThat's because SEO has ruined everything that isn't heavily community-managed.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoHow can one believe even for a second that the entire WWW is a dumpster fire of shitty ML generated articles... but at the same time that Reddit, whose only barrier of entry is creating an account (actually a lower barrier of entry that creating a website) is a safe haven of "quality information"? Food for thought...
- lloydatkinson 4y agoBecause humans wrote it, and there is an upvote system. Human content > ML content. Are you saying that HN is also not better than ML clickbait content? I doubt it. The fact that this is the second reddit append tool mentioned on HN within a week means there is obviously something you are not considering.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoWhen you _search_ for content in reddit using Google, the upvote system is irrelevant. You are actually just trusting the same ranking system Google uses for the rest of the Web. Reddit's community moderation does not play a role at all (unless the moderation effectively deleted the content, which it doesn't). It's not the same to look at HN's frontpage articles (or similarly the most upvoted comments) versus just randomly doing a text search for some obscure topic on HN and looking at whichever crap comes first. Specially when you use the very same search ranking algorithm you already complained tends to give crap.
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- virtual_void 4y agoI like duckduckgo bangs as an alternative to this. Just append !r to your search - or any of the others that they have, such as !hn. I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic. https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- thrdbndndn 4y agoI mean, that's a big difference. reddit's site search is infamously bad.
- pluc 4y agoreddit's whole infrastructure is straight out of a case study
- bilekas 4y agoTrue. Their implementation of a video player baffles the mind too.
- CameronNemo 4y agoI've heard a lot of hate about their video player, but it always works for me. What exactly is the issue with it?
- plonk 4y agoIt's funny, I've never seen it work correctly, even in the simplest case, on any of my devices. Usually, clicking on the video does nothing. If I wait for enough seconds, it might start, maybe without sound. Or it might start the sound without the image. If I try to skip to some moment that hasn't been loaded yet, it usually just blocks and stops doing anything. Maybe you have the exact browser/device/screen size/OS combination that the devs test on. Note I don't use the mobile Reddit app, only the website. I'd like the devs to please just use the browser's <video> reader, without adding their own JS.
- superasn 4y agoI think it's only a matter of time before this becomes kinda mainstream, and reddit too will be 'optimized' like google.
- throw10920 4y agoIt's already happening - marketers are creating sockpuppet accounts on Reddit to promote their products. This approach isn't sustainable.
- owlninja 4y agoDo you have any examples of what this looks like?
- SamBam 4y agoIt's fairly well-known that some accounts "karma farm" by posting comment designed to be upvoted, and then use the credibility to sell themselves to marketers. Also, I believe it's fairly straightforward to buy votes in your posts from sock puppet farms. Here's an old post from a security researcher that wrote papers on this topic, and also experimented with buying votes: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock_puppets_in_rnetsec_last_year_and_are/ https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock... I am unsure what the current field is like.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoIf you moderate large enough subs you see this just often enough. They'll find another sub to farm karma on, then come to yours to spam their random new domain. I wish reddit automod could check the age of the domain since it was registered, could help, although it could also be straining on reddits part, but I've seen some weirdo who gets a new domain and spams blogspam thats just ripped off articles with ads all over. I'm surprised they're turning a profit wasting money on so many domains. Before ever being a submod anywhere, I had no idea of half of what goes on in reddit.
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- vgalin 4y agoYou can achieve the same result on Firefox without any extention (and maybe Chrome too). To do so have use "Custom Keywords"[0], which kind of allow you to change the behaviour of your search bar. For example, one of my keywords is "rd", and typing "rd my search" in my search bar launch a search on Google with "my search site:reddit.com". I've seen people doing really cool things using these custom keywords and JS, I don't know if it is very practical but the possibilities are endless. [0] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html
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- hyperpl 4y agoI use this extensively on FF desktop but sadly, I don't think I it's available on FF mobile. Has anyone had any luck finding a solution on mobile without needing to type in the extra ~15 character suffix?
- layer8 4y agoOn iOS I use Settings –> General –> Keyboards –> Text Replacement to define a replacement “sr” –> “site:reddit.com”. There’s probably some equivalent on Android.
- layer8 4y agoChrome can do the same via search engine shortcuts. This actually should be considered a basic browser feature, and as far as I can tell virtually every desktop browser since IE3 in 1996 does have it built in, it’s just not very well known.
- polynomial 4y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted. Such shortcuts (aka Site Search in Chrome) are a longstanding feature in Chrome, and it's unclear why you might need or want to do with a browser plugin instead.
- tarkin2 4y agoThe web and search seem massively broken if we need things like this. It feels like there's a massive opportunity to again make the web more person-to-person rather than corporation/advertisers-to-person.
- napolux 4y agoThe problem is that being google a monopoly, people started optimizing websites for the only owner of "search on the internet". Google is now involved in so much stuff that search seems to not be prominent anymore (when was the last time you see a new big feature in google.com?). And given the fact that being "1st on google" is an outstanding, profitable way to run a website, the uberoptimization is something YOU MUST do. This way the most optimized website wins, not the best one.
- TimLeland 4y agoI've seen several of these add Reddit to Google post recently. Curious if this could be turned into a real product or just adding reddit to searches is good enough? Adding reddit to searches seams to remove all the spammy seo targeted post that are not helpful. I built a site that is more like a search engine but uses Google: https://gooreddit.com/ https://gooreddit.com/
- boringg 4y agoI think companies/people who are deep in google SEO have also infiltrated reddit. Still better than Google in some regards but only a matter of time before it is degraded beyond useful value.
- adamomada 4y agoI’ve been on the site since 2012 and it’s all I can see. There is a subreddit from around the same time I joined called HailCorporate documenting a lot of the obvious instances but I’ve noticed lately that most people have been trained to mimic the ads just by being on the site for a short time Lately the most obvious example of what I mean is on the TV subreddit: shows aren’t just shows any more — they are almost always referred to as X on Y where Y is the network or streaming service the show is currently on. Sometimes it results in hilarity as in the case of a show called “You” with the show’s sub called YouOnLifetime - a network it is no longer available on. A less cynical person would say that people are just trying to help people find the show they’re speaking of, but it ends up being a constant string of Corporate keywords in upvoted posts and wow, just happens to be great for SEO.
- jordemort 4y agoWhat subject areas does this seem to actually help with? I've heard of people doing it but whenever I try it I seem to get results that are at least as irrelevant as what I'd get from searching the web at large - posts with no replies, or with a bunch of useless and poorly informed ones, random trolling, etc. That is, on the occasions when I'm lucky enough to be able to see the content without Reddit throwing 40 different modals and hiding replies in an effort to get me to sign up.
- Tutanota1 4y agoThought I was the only one who googles with Reddit as a keyword. Reddit has become a defacto source for reliable information.
- xkbarkar 4y agoI have to respectfully disagree with you there.
- adamomada 4y agoAs a long-time (10y) user on the site, this is pretty scary to see. Reddit had been an ad incubator that trains people to do their job for a while now, the first signs of it I saw when I signed up in 2012 - probably to call it out back then even (HailCorporate was one of the first subs I joined) My advice is to be extremely careful considering anything on the site reliable information and not just the output of an extremely effective PR machine
- krmboya 4y agoBrave search introduced a related feature recently. They have a 'Discussions' section in the search results page where they pull results from online forums (it seems like it's all Reddit for now).
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- droptablemain 4y agoAn entire extension to append a string?
- randoglando 4y agoJust use search.brave.com - they have a section for Reddit discussions
- john-aj 4y agoWhere? I don't see it when I do a search.
- asdev 4y agoshameless plug but I wrote this Chrome extension a while back which appends the date, # of upvotes and comments to Reddit search results on Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-search-helper/laladmlmbneplheiajfdpcephiehoifh/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-search-help...
- sanketpatrikar 4y agoWhat a wonderful extension! Any chance of a Firefox port?
- asdev 4y agoNot sure I'll get around to it but I have the source here if you want to give it a shot: https://github.com/built-by-as/RedditSearchHelper https://github.com/built-by-as/RedditSearchHelper
- richardliutl 4y agoI like the idea, but a bit hesitant to download the whole extension to try it out. Shameless plug: https://github.com/richardliutl/minimal-scripts/blob/main/bookmarklets/sr.js https://github.com/richardliutl/minimal-scripts/blob/main/bo... JS Bookmarklet accomplishing a similar goal
- GoodJokes 4y ago