• andyburke@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    sad and amazing how true this is.

    to find anything worthwhile in Google search you often needed to add site:reddit.com

    to find anything at all on Reddit you needed Google

    well, glad I don’t go to those websites anymore…

    • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      to find anything at all on Reddit you needed Google

      Huh? I just used reddits own search bar. Worked just fine for me.

      • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Idk I always found the result sorting to be, I mean, obscenely bad. I would find better more accurate results searching in Google “r/whateversub” followed by whatever it was I was trying to find.

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        1 year ago

        oh man this is hilarious.

        you’re kidding right? did they fix it right before everyone left in disgust and no one even noticed?

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        1 year ago

        I’ve found that Reddit’s search generally works when searching within a specific subreddit, but otherwise it’s mostly useless.

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      1 year ago

      People say this all the time, but I search prolifically and have literally never had to do this to get a relevant result top 4.

      What are you guys doing, using full sentences with puffery like you’re talking to the Enterprise or something?

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        1 year ago

        100% agree. While I think it might be easier to get to a relevant result more quickly in certain cases, I’ve never needed to suffix reddit to my searches to find what I need. Often reddit hits crop up but not because I looked for them specifically.