In the meantime, some of us still use Google to search Reddit, hence https://redditle.com
Or for some of us, because Google's results are increasingly filled with clickbait, "reddit" has been a cheatcode to navigate that. Redditle is for you too!
Is it the same as Googling "site:reddit.com"? Yes :D
Redditle also supports searching in a specific subreddit with "r/<subreddit>" e.g. "r/webdev guide to vue" would search in r/webdev.
Did you know that "Redditle" literally means either "with Reddit" or "Reddit it" in Turkish depending on context and is actually the perfect Turkish name for a service that does something using Reddit?
As a similar example, Turkish for "Google it" is "Google'la". To google is "Google'lamak".
PS: The suffixes le/la are the same, vowels in suffixes generally adapt to the word that the get attached to due to vowel harmony.
Top threads in Reddit are often contrived too: comments and recommendations mimicking real flow, just like fraudulent scientific studies fill the framework to look legit and where the layperson, and even scientists who aren't great with understanding statistics will believe it - and which media easily will promote as clickbait, making it a popular "truth" that the masses get familiarized with even if a shallow and incorrect conclusion is propagated.
Just want to say that I love this - I'm the exact target for it! I had considered doing something similar as a TUI, but my lazy ass never got around to it :)
nice! I use that quite often, so it might come handy. Quick question, how did you build that ? Does Google provide any sort of API or did you build a web scraper for that ?
Congratulations to you for the release. It looks great. For most of the queries I get that the server is overwhelmed. Probably HN hug of death.
I would look into the Reddit trademark situation. I am pretty sure reddit only allows apps and websites to use "for Reddit" and no other name combinations with their name.
I find the Duck Duck Go !bang things to be pretty comprehensive, easy to memorize. Just leaving my default engine as ddg and can get github, archwiki, reddit, google maps, npm, hacker news search very quickly
Or you can spend a few minutes configuring things locally to bypass a middle man, an additional HTTP redirect, and save a keystroke (!) or more since you can define your own shorter shortcuts. Privacy, performance, and convenience improved at the same time.
I have a ton of these set up in Firefox which used to work seamlessly on mobile until they ruined it in the disaster of a rewrite, and now they don't plan to bring it back at all in favor of some replacement system that's still not done yet.
Protip for Firefox users: you can create your own custom search engines for any website by simply creating a new bookmark of the form "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com" and set the bookmark keyword to whatever prefix you prefer e.g. "r". This config will let me search reddit by typing "r vuejs" my Firefox's address bar
For DuckDuckGo users, you can just use a !bang. !r for searching on Reddit directly, !sr to go to a specific subreddit, !searchr for searching Reddit through DDG, and !greddit for searching Reddit through Google.
Though there's some risk of it going away in an upcoming patch, you can also use JavaScript and do pretty much anything you want in a bookmarklet keyword, creating very powerful "advanced searches" for yourself. I have a few examples outlined here - https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/#bookma...
This is amazing. I've been using DDG mostly for the bangs and really wished there was a way to add custom bangs (I suggested them to DDG, but never got a response). This is just what i needed.
This isn’t really relevant anymore, but even Internet Explorer had that feature ("SearchUrl") since IE3 in 1996. While not well-known, it’s a must-have browser feature IMO.
You can do the same on chrome: right click on the url bar → manage search engines → set a keyword to the prefix you prefer and the url with %s for the search term in the same way.
xSearch for Safari is great for this on Mac and iOS. I've made a bunch of custom !bang search engines on top of those supported by DuckDuckGo. It really speeds up research on various databases.
I've been working on a browser extension called More Rich Results that you might find useful.
It just looks for Reddit and Stack Exchange results and previews them in the sidebar. It makes for a pretty clean search experience when developing or looking for opinions.
It has definitely improved my workflow and a lot more features are planned such as Github repo/issue previews and support for Searx. It currently works with Google and DuckDuckGo, although it is still in the early stages.
Hackernews' Algolia search function is also a wealth of information. Basically any useful site (& comment) you can imagine is stored there, if you care to look. It's almost too good to be true, but you have to be in a serendipitous mindset to dive into certain topics, and also have something precious to us all: time. There's rabbit-holes on certain topics where I genuinely don't have the time to delve any further.
Like lately I wanted to learn about Go and was just floored at how much documentation and snippets of code I could use in my first project, so I just gave up. There are things I want to learn, but don't have the dedication & discipline to set aside 5 hours to make those initial first steps.
This is why I double down on topics I am currently proficient at, and when I find something that can go exponential the more time I spend on it, the better it is for me. Build on strength.
If you have a Reddit account no extensions are needed to fix this.
Just go to your Reddit account settings[0] and click "Opt out of the redesign" at the bottom. (Or on old Reddit you uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience"). Once you do this you'll now see old Reddit on www.reddit.com.
The best thing about this is other people don't need "old.reddit.com" to "new.reddit.com" redirector extensions. Reddit assumes if you put "old." or "new." then you explicitly want to override your account's preferences.
I will note that this setting occasionally "unsticks" and you start getting the new one again... I assume that's a purposeful "feature" to see if they can cleave off some people who now tolerate it or don't notice.
I think regression isn't saying it directly enough. Reddit purposefully sabotages their own mobile site to entice you to install a data slurping app on your phone.
Don't even bother with reddit on mobile; you really need an app. I've been through a lot of reddit apps and Boost is the best IMO. Everything just works, and useful gestures that I usually don't trigger by accident.
On some posts on mobile I get an overlay telling me to either create an account, or view r/popular, with no choice to view the post I found via search. If you do sign in you get 2, sometimes 3 consecutive popups to use their app. They definitely don't care about the mobile web experience except as a means to market their app
Reddit is a psychopath organisation. Strong words, but if you've ever followed a Google link to a Reddit page on mobile, then you would understand that no-one could accidentally build such an abhorrent experience, it is deliberate evil.
New reddit is also a shitshow on mobile. Load the page (which takes a while) dismiss the prompt to get the app, continue browsing, click Load More in comments, try to dismiss the login prompt, fail, give up and leave. On desktop new reddit scrolls all the way to the top when you Ctrl+click links in comment threads, it's a mess. I usually use libreddit.
Mostly my problem with it is that it's buggy: frequently clicking a thread or comment chain doesn't actually load, but scrolls the screen as if it did, and other similar annoyances.
On mobile particularly if logged out (or particularly particularly if in a private browsing mode) it's quite aggressive about trying to push you to the app, or letting you view only a couple comments in a thread before saying you're not allowed to see more, or not letting you view some subs at all. "Old" reddit doesn't do any of this.
I've noticed an increased amount of search hijacking related to "reddit" these days. The results are flooded with results such as these when I search for "axiom trekk reddit":
that's easily fixed by googling "blah blah site:reddit.com"
The real problem is how to get better results now that reddit's site has changed. I often see posts from even 10 years show as having activity from within a few years or even days on google. The reddit redesign has been a horrible detriment to the website
If you're using it for product research, probably not the best idea - I'm betting that people who append site:reddit.com to their queries are not the only ones who've noticed it being a better place to find information sometimes... marketers will, if not, already have, heavily infiltrated popular subreddits, especially to manufacture consensus on good products.
The killer feature for me would be time filter. Google doesn't work because the dates listed on the results never match the date of the original post. For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. I assume this is some SEO bullshit that Reddit is pulling.
I've posted about this a lot as I use site:reddit.com extensively.
>For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google.
I've noticed this too. I think Google Search is updating the page's timestamp in the search cache every time anything changes on the page itself. So if the sub's admins change any content that displays on every page in the sub, like the rules/guidelines section or stickies a post for example, Google Search is considering it a page update even if the post itself is old.
If there's one thing google needs to very very heavily penalize in their page rank algorithm, it's websites that outright lie about date. It makes the entire search process unusable for tons of queries, even more so than if they just didn't display any date.
If that's impossible they should at least keep track of page history independently of what the page itself says. Especially when it's very obviously just done to cheat the algo. There's no way for an archived 7 year old reddit article to actually change, and honestly even in an active post I don't see any reason for updating the timestamps.
founder of Breeze where our core thesis is searching by date, and yeah, it's a massssssssssssssive problem. there's only so much we can do for queries we support that are serviced by other indexes, we're adding an archive compare for queries where we're doing the indexing along with the query and even in that situation, yeah, it's just a lot of work and again only so much can do
> For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google.
This has been frustrating me to no end.
Te results on Google will show the reddit posts with dates within the last 6-12 months for the posts, then when I click into the post it was actually made 3-4 years ago.
There will be "<Post title - reddit.com> - 05/05/21", then you click that link, and the post was actually made 7 years ago, with the last comment being 7 years ago.
Readit News
Reddit search isn't great (https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/lucx82/w...). But it's improving! (https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/t9nuaz/whats_up_wit...)
In the meantime, some of us still use Google to search Reddit, hence https://redditle.com
Or for some of us, because Google's results are increasingly filled with clickbait, "reddit" has been a cheatcode to navigate that. Redditle is for you too!
Is it the same as Googling "site:reddit.com"? Yes :D
Redditle also supports searching in a specific subreddit with "r/<subreddit>" e.g. "r/webdev guide to vue" would search in r/webdev.
GitHub repo - https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle
Did you know that "Redditle" literally means either "with Reddit" or "Reddit it" in Turkish depending on context and is actually the perfect Turkish name for a service that does something using Reddit?
As a similar example, Turkish for "Google it" is "Google'la". To google is "Google'lamak".
PS: The suffixes le/la are the same, vowels in suffixes generally adapt to the word that the get attached to due to vowel harmony.
> u can google ur questions about the world and get the CIA FBI answer or u can add "reddit" to the end of it and learn the truth
https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch
- scraping, probably against TOU - api -> https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/ - same, except embed -> https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/
context - we use all of those plus Bing, etc. for https://breezethat.com
I would look into the Reddit trademark situation. I am pretty sure reddit only allows apps and websites to use "for Reddit" and no other name combinations with their name.
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Here's how to do it with Firefox: https://kb.iu.edu/d/arjb
In Chrome, you do pretty much the same in Settings->Search Engine->Manage Search Engines->Add
You'll want to use something like this, to taste:
I have these set up for all kinds of sites, and they're accessible straight from my local machines (because: sync)More help for Google search operators: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
[meta] Migrate keyword bookmarks into about:preferences managed Search Engines https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653261
site:reddit.com/r/television premier episode discussion
I don’t even need to make sure the browser have focus now.
To see other Reddit options, !bangs Reddit.
https://duckduckgo.com/bang
...my default/ basic DDG search. I ublock all the graphics and stuff, too.
I didn't know about !searchr, wish it was shorter. At least it's better than what I've been doing which is typing out site:reddit.com.
I use the shortcut "rs" for https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site:reddit.com for searching reddit, and the shortcut "r" to go directly to the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/%s
https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
Basically Firefox substitutes the text of your query into the %s part of the bookmark URL
Works very well with any site.
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It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/kb5OE0n.gif
It has definitely improved my workflow and a lot more features are planned such as Github repo/issue previews and support for Searx. It currently works with Google and DuckDuckGo, although it is still in the early stages.
https://github.com/lassebomh/more-rich-results
To install you need to download the repo, enable developer mode for extensions in your browser and press Load unpacked.
Like lately I wanted to learn about Go and was just floored at how much documentation and snippets of code I could use in my first project, so I just gave up. There are things I want to learn, but don't have the dedication & discipline to set aside 5 hours to make those initial first steps.
This is why I double down on topics I am currently proficient at, and when I find something that can go exponential the more time I spend on it, the better it is for me. Build on strength.
My rule for reddit:
Just go to your Reddit account settings[0] and click "Opt out of the redesign" at the bottom. (Or on old Reddit you uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience"). Once you do this you'll now see old Reddit on www.reddit.com.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/settings
It’s frustrating that there are clear regressions on mobile even for a mobile centric overhaul.
On mobile particularly if logged out (or particularly particularly if in a private browsing mode) it's quite aggressive about trying to push you to the app, or letting you view only a couple comments in a thread before saying you're not allowed to see more, or not letting you view some subs at all. "Old" reddit doesn't do any of this.
- https://redditfavorites.com/products/axiom-trekk-seat-collar...
- https://redditbests.com/reviews/axiom-gear-trekk-rack/
- https://www.petagadget.com/a/axiom-trekk-seat-clamp-collar-f...
Your website should help me with that !
The real problem is how to get better results now that reddit's site has changed. I often see posts from even 10 years show as having activity from within a few years or even days on google. The reddit redesign has been a horrible detriment to the website
ymmv for results during past 72 hours, certainly good enough for many use cases, e.g., reviews for X this year, etc.
I've posted about this a lot as I use site:reddit.com extensively.
I've noticed this too. I think Google Search is updating the page's timestamp in the search cache every time anything changes on the page itself. So if the sub's admins change any content that displays on every page in the sub, like the rules/guidelines section or stickies a post for example, Google Search is considering it a page update even if the post itself is old.
If that's impossible they should at least keep track of page history independently of what the page itself says. Especially when it's very obviously just done to cheat the algo. There's no way for an archived 7 year old reddit article to actually change, and honestly even in an active post I don't see any reason for updating the timestamps.
This has been frustrating me to no end.
Te results on Google will show the reddit posts with dates within the last 6-12 months for the posts, then when I click into the post it was actually made 3-4 years ago.
There will be "<Post title - reddit.com> - 05/05/21", then you click that link, and the post was actually made 7 years ago, with the last comment being 7 years ago.
If this problem was solved then it's game over.
site:reddit.com also works and we'll be adding a reddit tab in results soooooon
lots more examples of time-based queries in this view of my twitter timeline, https://twitter.com/search?q=dotdotjames%20breezethat.com&sr...
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