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I generally do a google search now and tag 'reddit' at the end, to find useful conversations around the topic I'm interested in. It's been working great so far.
by dudeinsf 8y ago
I generally do a google search now and tag 'reddit' at the end, to find useful conversations around the topic I'm interested in. It's been working great so far.
- illnewsthat 8y agoI also do this very frequently. Search for reddit itself isn’t great but Google usually surfaces more popular threads from reddit which have valuable and ranked comments on any topic.
- jac08h 8y agoalso, you can use site:reddit.com to get results only from reddit domain
- xfour 8y agoHa, exactly what I did in the end. I thought I was clever. But if this is the case then what value is google providing other than a good search interface on subreddits?
- O_H_E 8y agoI started to question google, when I found myself doing this alot
- jobigoud 8y agoAnd to think they had a special 'discussions' search that would search forums and groups.
- wmeredith 8y agoAdding !r to the end of a Duck Duck Go search does the same thing.
- seanwilson 8y agoThis is what I do as well. The upvotes, downvotes and comments mean I trust threads with a lot of comments because I know the top voted comment has had some critical evaluation. The top Google result tends to only be authored by one entity and you don't see critical comments about it.
- Kagerjay 8y agoThis is like the first thing I research for. I usually prepend reddit because somethings I search things like: "reddit software X vs __________" because the alternative is not semantically correct "software X vs reddit" google is smart enough to know I really meant "site:reddit.com software X vs _________" The same is true for youtube, if you go to the video's section sometimes you don't get youtube results on first listing. Just prepend "youtube"