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I actually started going directly to the Reddit app and finding the relevant subreddit and searching within it - hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting

I actually started going directly to the Reddit app and finding the relevant subreddit and searching within it - hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting on but I doubt it.

DistractionRect 3y ago
I've found reddit first party search to be pretty lack luster. More often than not, I'd have to fallback to Googling "site:reddit.com/r/subreddit-of-interest <terms>" and while better, that's about a 50/50 a lot of the time. Reddit does this thing where it advertises other threads on the same page of whatever you're viewing. So sometimes the promoted content was the thing actually relevant to the search and not the current thread. And this would be fine except it's not static/deterministic. The promoted content usually changes between when it's indexed and when it's accessed at a later time - so the thing that made it relevant to the search often isn't there anymore. So you have to either view the cached paged if available, go back and try different results, or refine your search.
- klondike_klive 3y ago
  Thanks for the tip. I'll try this next time I'm about to spend ten minutes searching for some After Effects effect or shortcut.
senttoschool 3y ago
>hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting on but I doubt it. They do now and the first thing they want to do is to sell their content to AI labs for millions/year.
deafpolygon 3y ago
Don't worry - it knows. Reddit wants to extract the value asap. I'm pretty sure they're looking to liquidate Reddit and go big on AI.
- ideamotor 3y ago
  I think data harvesting for AI is the real reason Twitter and Reddit want to limit access. Even I was thinking how easy it would be to mine both sites. It sucks because that’s the end of the (quasi) open web.
  - specproc 3y ago
    My hope is that the old are dying and the new cannot yet be born, and that whatever comes next is as, if not more programmatically accessible. It's kinda on us to ensure that it's only in the interregnum that we have the morbid and dysfunctional symptoms.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    The data collection for use with training AI is causing an increasing number of smaller hobbyist websites to shut down or become member-only. It's not a lot of sites (yet), but it's making the web get smaller, and worse, it's affecting the most useful and interesting parts of the web more than the commercial stuff.
princevegeta89 3y ago
Good idea, but Google does the indexing job way better than the very Reddit Search
- ramraj07 3y ago
  The issue is the entire internet is out there to game Google so pretty much nothing in google is useful anymore.

I actually started going directly to the Reddit app and finding the relevant subreddit and searching within it - hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting on but I doubt it.

DistractionRect 3y ago

I've found reddit first party search to be pretty lack luster. More often than not, I'd have to fallback to Googling "site:reddit.com/r/subreddit-of-interest <terms>" and while better, that's about a 50/50 a lot of the time. Reddit does this thing where it advertises other threads on the same page of whatever you're viewing. So sometimes the promoted content was the thing actually relevant to the search and not the current thread. And this would be fine except it's not static/deterministic. The promoted content usually changes between when it's indexed and when it's accessed at a later time - so the thing that made it relevant to the search often isn't there anymore. So you have to either view the cached paged if available, go back and try different results, or refine your search.

klondike_klive 3y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll try this next time I'm about to spend ten minutes searching for some After Effects effect or shortcut.

senttoschool 3y ago

>hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting on but I doubt it. They do now and the first thing they want to do is to sell their content to AI labs for millions/year.

deafpolygon 3y ago

Don't worry - it knows. Reddit wants to extract the value asap. I'm pretty sure they're looking to liquidate Reddit and go big on AI.

ideamotor 3y ago
I think data harvesting for AI is the real reason Twitter and Reddit want to limit access. Even I was thinking how easy it would be to mine both sites. It sucks because that’s the end of the (quasi) open web.
- specproc 3y ago
  My hope is that the old are dying and the new cannot yet be born, and that whatever comes next is as, if not more programmatically accessible. It's kinda on us to ensure that it's only in the interregnum that we have the morbid and dysfunctional symptoms.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  The data collection for use with training AI is causing an increasing number of smaller hobbyist websites to shut down or become member-only. It's not a lot of sites (yet), but it's making the web get smaller, and worse, it's affecting the most useful and interesting parts of the web more than the commercial stuff.

princevegeta89 3y ago

Good idea, but Google does the indexing job way better than the very Reddit Search

ramraj07 3y ago
The issue is the entire internet is out there to game Google so pretty much nothing in google is useful anymore.