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    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…

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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

        Have you never searched for a problem where you wanted to hear actual people talk about the solution? If I don’t suffix it with “Reddit” I just get SEO spam/AI generated articles which may or may not actually be useful. Usually I want to know what real people think about the issue.

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        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.

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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.

      Edit: Man some of you are bitter at the fact that not everyone had issues using Reddits own search. Lmao

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        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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            When you know a post exists, and you type its exact title into reddits search, and it gives you inrelated bullshit so you need to go to google who hand you the exact post you knew existed, it annoys you.

            When you do that every time you try reddits search function, you start to really hate it.

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        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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          But isn’t that how most people use google to search Reddit anyways? They specify the sub in their searches.

          But anyways, I was always able to find what I was looking for even when doing a website-wide general search or when picking the sub. shrug

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        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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          You could pick what sub you wanted to find your info directly from Reddits own search bar as well though. Or choose to search the entire website.