The same works with Brave too! D'uh!

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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")

   pancakes site:reddit.com intitle:"/r/memes"

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I have to respectfully disagree with you there.

Making the same comment over and over again is really not adding anything to the discussion.

I'm actually working on an alternative to Google (though the goal being improved search, not improved privacy), I made this extension during one of the breaks from working on that

To offer some alternative, startpage.com uses google search results and claims to be more privacy oriented.

It's not a belief, it's outcome oriented. I have had more luck troubleshooting a niche issue or finding common viewpoints (negative ones being the most important) on products and problems I am trying to solve via Reddit than the autogen listicles and vaguely related quora posts that make up the vast majority of Google's first 10 page results.

All the signals I am picking up on/using to differentiate a real or usable comment (sometimes paid ones can still be useful!) can of course be gamed the same way Google search or Amazon product reviews can. Reddit can also still be botted.

But in practice I am currently finding more success at home with information sourced from Reddit. That will no doubt change eventually, but right now, it is indeed better for me.

I hint at it above, but we all use Google for different things - buying things, finding things, getting information on a variety of topics. If I'm trying to do something like solve a technical or software issue, it actually doesn't matter if the result is gamed or not - what matters is if I solve the issue. Stackoverflow, Reddit and wikipedia results easily help me reach that end far more often than Google does, especially when Google doesn't seem to often surface the more obscure hobby forums that might have niche information.

Honestly reddit is pretty bad, much of it feels like an echo chamber/shilling, but when it comes to things not focused on consuming product(e.g. linux) it's pretty helpful and has gotten me out of jams more than I'd care to admit. I think the reason the information is higher quality in those spheres is because there's no incentive to push something. You don't see people pushing a product on you to rip a cd, they just tell you the DD command(results may vary for macos and windows users), wheras in product oriented subreddits I see things being pushed all the time that at second glance are either crap or expensive. Similarly, these SEO sites are simply scraping documentation from oracle, and answers from stack overflow and slapping ads on them to make money. I reckon if reddit users got paid to post we'd see a whole lot more botting.

Because it's not easy to monetize a Reddit post. If you attract people to click on your garbage article, you can display ads and extract value. Meanwhile if you post the same bullshit on Reddit, you get nothing.

This is not to say that there are no bots, paid shills and other issues on Reddit, but it is definitely a good filter. It's the same with Stackoverflow vs most coding sites that just rip them off.

Because humans wrote it, and there is an upvote system. Human content > ML content. Are you saying that HN is also not better than ML clickbait content? I doubt it.

The fact that this is the second reddit append tool mentioned on HN within a week means there is obviously something you are not considering.

With you on this. It depends hugely on which subreddit and the subreddit approach to moderation but on average I would say reddit is reflective of (and in many cases worse than) the general level of quality of the www as a whole.