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Reddit 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.
by idontwantthis 5y ago
Reddit 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 5y 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 5y 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 5y agosame, never had any problems adding subreddits to site: searches
- notRobot 5y 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 5y 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.
- snowman-yelling 5y agoYou just need a redirect rule to do it, right?
- hidden-spyder 5y agoYou could also just do: > pancakes site:reddit.com/r/memes
- alex_smart 5y agoFor more complex queries, you can use https://github.com/pushshift/api https://github.com/pushshift/api.
- TheRealDunkirk 5y agoWhat's the point? Product reviews are all gamed. Having been burned several times trying to use "reviews," and buying "the good stuff," only to have it break within a couple years, has soured me on any and all review systems or services (especially Consumer Reports), and convinced me that they only way to get REAL quality is to spend 2x-5x as much for something as the mainstream leader in the category. I believe that nothing you find at Reddit is in any way indicative of an honest review, but, hey, YMMV, TACMA, IANAL, etc., et. al.
- dmschulman 5y agoTake the commentary on Reddit with a grain of skepticism and an understanding that people are speaking from a personal point of view, not an expert point of view. I treat the information I find via Reddit as a strong data point, but not the end of the search.
- technothrasher 5y agoRight, the information on Reddit is more likely (but not guaranteed) to be authentic, not necessarily more likely to be correct.
- ludamad 5y agoAs well, authenticity can be investigated more than in reviews. If the person has a bunch of genuine seeming posts in other categories the risk of not being authentic is acceptably low for me (might seem like a bit much, but be burned by obscured ads enough times...)
- plonk 5y agoIf a tweet gets shared enough, its author gets approached by brands who want to pay them to add ads below the tweet. The same probably happens on Reddit, except it's even easier, because anyone can write a review, since the author of a popular post doesn't have a visibility advantage when posting a reply to it. Just find some random users, and offer to pay them for a good recommendation on some "what is the best product to do X?" post.
- jimmySixDOF 5y agoAlso the accuracy of Reddit date ranges as listed in Google search is broken then works then it's broken again so you just hope for the best on any given day. Seems to be working at the moment.
- Fnoord 5y agoDon't have to use Google. Duckduckgo or any other search engine is suffice.