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Google used to have the ability to search for "discussions", no idea why they removed that. Nowadays I just append "site:reddit" to most of my queries (althoug
by mupuff1234 4y ago
Google used to have the ability to search for "discussions", no idea why they removed that.
Nowadays I just append "site:reddit" to most of my queries (although I'm sure there's more and more paid/fake posts there as well)
- visarga 4y agoI'd like more search filters like that, they should be composable with logic expressions. For example, "forums" or "eu" (all EU national domains, so you can find a product that is easy to ship), but you could extend it with page categories like "reviews", "recipes", "python", "js", "in/out_top_1m", "blogs", not to mention verticals like "shopping", "hotels", "tickets". Especially for the shopping category Google dropped the ball. When I am, wallet in hand, ready to buy a widget, why doesn't it do the best to help me find it? Isn't that the essence of search? Or just to search again and show more ads? Such a failure of experience to try to use Google. Behaves like the doctor who secretly wants people to be sick so he can have more business. But the writing is on the wall. Dialogue based search agents are coming, snippet based search is on the way out. The language models become better and better, they can even do sub-searches. The trend towards natural language based search is being accelerated by the mobile phones who lack proper keyboards and large screens.