Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended

[hexomancer]

Or you could just add this to your chrome search engines and set the shortcut to r. Now you don't even have to press control.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s

[crossroads091]

The same works with Brave too! D'uh!

[vgalin]

You can achieve the same result on Firefox without any extention (and maybe Chrome too). To do so have use "Custom Keywords"[0], which kind of allow you to change the behaviour of your search bar. For example, one of my keywords is "rd", and typing "rd my search" in my search bar launch a search on Google with "my search site:reddit.com".

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

[hyperpl]

I use this extensively on FF desktop but sadly, I don't think I it's available on FF mobile. Has anyone had any luck finding a solution on mobile without needing to type in the extra ~15 character suffix?

[layer8]

Chrome can do the same via search engine shortcuts. This actually should be considered a basic browser feature, and as far as I can tell virtually every desktop browser since IE3 in 1996 does have it built in, it’s just not very well known.

[gpm]

What I'd really like to see is some way to important some giant list of them, like duckduckgos list of bangs.

[idontwantthis]

Reddit search is terrible, so you use Google to search Reddit. Google search is terrible for product reviews, so you use it to get to back to Reddit.

[TheRealDunkirk]

What's the point? Product reviews are all gamed. Having been burned several times trying to use "reviews," and buying "the good stuff," only to have it break within a couple years, has soured me on any and all review systems or services (especially Consumer Reports), and convinced me that they only way to get REAL quality is to spend 2x-5x as much for something as the mainstream leader in the category. I believe that nothing you find at Reddit is in any way indicative of an honest review, but, hey, YMMV, TACMA, IANAL, etc., et. al.

[jimmySixDOF]

Also the accuracy of Reddit date ranges as listed in Google search is broken then works then it's broken again so you just hope for the best on any given day. Seems to be working at the moment.

[Gualdrapo]

You can just combine the two, without the need of an extension - use Google to search within Reddit.

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")

[Fnoord]

Don't have to use Google. Duckduckgo or any other search engine is suffice.

[superasn]

I think it's only a matter of time before this becomes kinda mainstream, and reddit too will be 'optimized' like google.

[throw10920]

It's already happening - marketers are creating sockpuppet accounts on Reddit to promote their products. This approach isn't sustainable.

[virtual_void]

I like duckduckgo bangs as an alternative to this. Just append !r to your search - or any of the others that they have, such as !hn.

I guess the difference is that it tends to use the search within the site you're searching, which might be less than fantastic.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

[thrdbndndn]

I mean, that's a big difference. reddit's site search is infamously bad.

[itslennysfault]

Yeeeeaaah, reddit search is garbage, but.......

!g site:reddit.com something I want to find

[lloydatkinson]

It’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.

[AshamedCaptain]

How can one believe even for a second that the entire WWW is a dumpster fire of shitty ML generated articles... but at the same time that Reddit, whose only barrier of entry is creating an account (actually a lower barrier of entry that creating a website) is a safe haven of "quality information"?

Food for thought...

[pluc]

That's because SEO has ruined everything that isn't heavily community-managed.

[pawelduda]

While I find the use case useful (I often skip the normal search and default to site:reddit.com/site:stackoverflow.com, etc.), it doesn't do enough for me to justify having yet another plugin in my browser. It could be replaced by a text-expansion tool. In my case, it is deep in my muscle memory so typing it by hand doesn't bother me.

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.

[boringg]

I think companies/people who are deep in google SEO have also infiltrated reddit. Still better than Google in some regards but only a matter of time before it is degraded beyond useful value.

[adamomada]

I’ve been on the site since 2012 and it’s all I can see. There is a subreddit from around the same time I joined called HailCorporate documenting a lot of the obvious instances but I’ve noticed lately that most people have been trained to mimic the ads just by being on the site for a short time

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.

[krmboya]

Brave search introduced a related feature recently. They have a 'Discussions' section in the search results page where they pull results from online forums (it seems like it's all Reddit for now).

[tarkin2]

The web and search seem massively broken if we need things like this. It feels like there's a massive opportunity to again make the web more person-to-person rather than corporation/advertisers-to-person.

[napolux]

The problem is that being google a monopoly, people started optimizing websites for the only owner of "search on the internet".

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.

[jordemort]

What subject areas does this seem to actually help with? I've heard of people doing it but whenever I try it I seem to get results that are at least as irrelevant as what I'd get from searching the web at large - posts with no replies, or with a bunch of useless and poorly informed ones, random trolling, etc. That is, on the occasions when I'm lucky enough to be able to see the content without Reddit throwing 40 different modals and hiding replies in an effort to get me to sign up.

[richardliutl]

I like the idea, but a bit hesitant to download the whole extension to try it out. Shameless plug: https://github.com/richardliutl/minimal-scripts/blob/main/bo... JS Bookmarklet accomplishing a similar goal

[TheRealDunkirk]

I don't get it. I think I'm batting .005 with getting a good result from Reddit's "hive mind." And Reddit spams my search results so much that it frequently takes up several of the top slots. The net-net is that I often include "-site:reddit.com" in my searches.

[elicash]

I was JUST researching whether air ducts should get cleaned from dust, and google results while mixed were mostly pretty good and gave a quality EPA page as result number one -- not a marketing blog. (Though the question and answer part of google was mixed with the number two question being answered by saying to have them cleaned every 2 to 3 years, which is crazy. Also, I think this crowd is savvier than most about knowing when a website is just marketing and when to ignore it.)

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.

[xkbarkar]

I sometimes get poor quality reddit score higher than good quality stackoverflow results. I need another internet. The current one is broken.

[crowbahr]

I'm curious what the 995 bad results you're getting from reddit are.

[randoglando]

Just use search.brave.com - they have a section for Reddit discussions

[john-aj]

Where? I don't see it when I do a search.

[asdev]

shameless plug but I wrote this Chrome extension a while back which appends the date, # of upvotes and comments to Reddit search results on Google: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-search-help...

[sanketpatrikar]

What a wonderful extension! Any chance of a Firefox port?

[Tutanota1]

Thought I was the only one who googles with Reddit as a keyword. Reddit has become a defacto source for reliable information.

[adamomada]

As a long-time (10y) user on the site, this is pretty scary to see. Reddit had been an ad incubator that trains people to do their job for a while now, the first signs of it I saw when I signed up in 2012 - probably to call it out back then even (HailCorporate was one of the first subs I joined)

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

[xkbarkar]

I have to respectfully disagree with you there.

[TimLeland]

I've seen several of these add Reddit to Google post recently. Curious if this could be turned into a real product or just adding reddit to searches is good enough? Adding reddit to searches seams to remove all the spammy seo targeted post that are not helpful.

I built a site that is more like a search engine but uses Google: https://gooreddit.com/

[droptablemain]

An entire extension to append a string?