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It's simple. Whenever I query for "X", under the hood duck duck go queries "X reddit". Jokes aside I think fixing the SEO hacking as the author mentions would

It's simple. Whenever I query for "X", under the hood duck duck go queries "X reddit". Jokes aside I think fixing the SEO hacking as the author mentions would go the longest way. It's really bad for stack overflow posts. When I Google a programming error the first few results are copy cat sites with the exact Stack Overflow questions and replies. I don't understand how SEO has evolved to favor that over the actual, more popular, stack overflow page.

riolu 4y ago
> under the hood duck duck go queries "X reddit". Both Google and DDG already do that, you just format the query correctly. Once you are an expert in a field you will begin to understand how bad reddit is for information.
- yunohn 4y ago
  But “X Reddit beats Google” (ironically on google) is the biggest meme right now. Are you telling me it barely works?
ramraj07 4y ago
Everyone on HN is catching up to this, but what we are all realizing is we want actual user curation, trusted user curation. Reddit is currently a good proxy because the best recommendations on Reddit for a question are upvoted reasonably democratically by the type of people you’d trust. For the time being the gamification of Reddit isn’t bad enough to be an issue here. But that’s just a matter of time. As more and more people start using Reddit as the most authentic source of dependable information, folks are gonna start gaming that to the core as well, basically this is going to be a game like the Red Queen. One possibility is that the search engine itself starts becoming like Reddit maybe? They clearly know what result you’re clicking, they could start making user similarities (or ask you for an explicit list of your peers) to find similar users and rank results based on what people like you click. Obviously google can do it easier since it knows YOu. But even DDG maybe able to do something like user curation or site blacklisting (and have popular lists like exist for tracking avoidance that you can subscribe to). This is the only solution IMO. For example for any coding related search I’d be happy to rid of every top 10 result in google except SO. All the rest is garbage. Maybe there’s also an upvote button. But the score is not universal but personalized to you based on votes from people you actually might trust.
- woweoe 4y ago
  Reddit is already a cesspool for many issues including politics, news and race/culture based questions.
  - Gareth321 4y ago
    Agreed. There are certain topics which for which one cannot find anything resembling unbiased and factual, and it's getting worse as the owners continue to turn Reddit into a sanitised, ad-friendly social platform. If one is using Reddit to find relevant information, they first need knowledge about which subreddits can be trusted, and this is in constant flux.
  - lelanthran 4y ago
    > Reddit is already a cesspool for many issues including politics, news and race/culture based questions. So? The blast radius of those issues doesn't fully spillover into the non-political forums. You want to know which of two different products in a particular class is better? /r/<productclass> won't be filled with political or culture-based proselytising. Looking to buy a new laptop/car/power-tool/chair? Good advice is to be found on reddit and you may never even see a single off-topic discussion in your search.
    - pydry 4y ago
      Probably wont be long until the spammers figure out how to invade those spaces too though.
  - dageshi 4y ago
    Everywhere is a cesspool for those issues.
- mwint 4y ago
  SO, GitHub, often Reddit, and pure technical doc sites would be on my list of non-garbage from Google’s top 10.
- jonappleseed22 4y ago
Method-X 4y ago
Brave Search has a Goggle that does exactly what you want: https://search.brave.com/goggles?goggles_id=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fbrave%2Fgoggles-quickstart%2Fmain%2Fgoggles%2Fcopycats_removal.goggle https://search.brave.com/goggles?goggles_id=https%3A%2F%2Fra...
o_m 4y ago
I've noticed Google has started to ignore the Reddit postfix more and more. Now I have to add site:reddit.com to get reddit results

riolu 4y ago

> under the hood duck duck go queries "X reddit". Both Google and DDG already do that, you just format the query correctly. Once you are an expert in a field you will begin to understand how bad reddit is for information.

yunohn 4y ago
But “X Reddit beats Google” (ironically on google) is the biggest meme right now. Are you telling me it barely works?

ramraj07 4y ago

Everyone on HN is catching up to this, but what we are all realizing is we want actual user curation, trusted user curation. Reddit is currently a good proxy because the best recommendations on Reddit for a question are upvoted reasonably democratically by the type of people you’d trust. For the time being the gamification of Reddit isn’t bad enough to be an issue here. But that’s just a matter of time. As more and more people start using Reddit as the most authentic source of dependable information, folks are gonna start gaming that to the core as well, basically this is going to be a game like the Red Queen. One possibility is that the search engine itself starts becoming like Reddit maybe? They clearly know what result you’re clicking, they could start making user similarities (or ask you for an explicit list of your peers) to find similar users and rank results based on what people like you click. Obviously google can do it easier since it knows YOu. But even DDG maybe able to do something like user curation or site blacklisting (and have popular lists like exist for tracking avoidance that you can subscribe to). This is the only solution IMO. For example for any coding related search I’d be happy to rid of every top 10 result in google except SO. All the rest is garbage. Maybe there’s also an upvote button. But the score is not universal but personalized to you based on votes from people you actually might trust.

woweoe 4y ago
Reddit is already a cesspool for many issues including politics, news and race/culture based questions.
- Gareth321 4y ago
  Agreed. There are certain topics which for which one cannot find anything resembling unbiased and factual, and it's getting worse as the owners continue to turn Reddit into a sanitised, ad-friendly social platform. If one is using Reddit to find relevant information, they first need knowledge about which subreddits can be trusted, and this is in constant flux.
- lelanthran 4y ago
  > Reddit is already a cesspool for many issues including politics, news and race/culture based questions. So? The blast radius of those issues doesn't fully spillover into the non-political forums. You want to know which of two different products in a particular class is better? /r/<productclass> won't be filled with political or culture-based proselytising. Looking to buy a new laptop/car/power-tool/chair? Good advice is to be found on reddit and you may never even see a single off-topic discussion in your search.
  - pydry 4y ago
    Probably wont be long until the spammers figure out how to invade those spaces too though.
- dageshi 4y ago
  Everywhere is a cesspool for those issues.
mwint 4y ago
SO, GitHub, often Reddit, and pure technical doc sites would be on my list of non-garbage from Google’s top 10.
jonappleseed22 4y ago

Method-X 4y ago

Brave Search has a Goggle that does exactly what you want: https://search.brave.com/goggles?goggles_id=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fbrave%2Fgoggles-quickstart%2Fmain%2Fgoggles%2Fcopycats_removal.goggle https://search.brave.com/goggles?goggles_id=https%3A%2F%2Fra...

o_m 4y ago

I've noticed Google has started to ignore the Reddit postfix more and more. Now I have to add site:reddit.com to get reddit results