One of the few good things that comes from homogenizing browsers under one engine: they all pretty much work the same.
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
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")
pancakes site:reddit.com intitle:"/r/memes"
Will show results for pancakes from Reddit, from the memes subreddit.I use that quite often to restrict to a subreddit and it works well in my experience.
Next presidential campaign is going to be brutal to reddit spam/noise filters, I hope they are ready somehow.
I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic.
!g site:reddit.com something I want to find
Food for thought...
All the signals I am picking up on/using to differentiate a real or usable comment (sometimes paid ones can still be useful!) can of course be gamed the same way Google search or Amazon product reviews can. Reddit can also still be botted.
But in practice I am currently finding more success at home with information sourced from Reddit. That will no doubt change eventually, but right now, it is indeed better for me.
I hint at it above, but we all use Google for different things - buying things, finding things, getting information on a variety of topics. If I'm trying to do something like solve a technical or software issue, it actually doesn't matter if the result is gamed or not - what matters is if I solve the issue. Stackoverflow, Reddit and wikipedia results easily help me reach that end far more often than Google does, especially when Google doesn't seem to often surface the more obscure hobby forums that might have niche information.
This is not to say that there are no bots, paid shills and other issues on Reddit, but it is definitely a good filter. It's the same with Stackoverflow vs most coding sites that just rip them off.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I built a site that is more like a search engine but uses Google: https://gooreddit.com/
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