Yeah, I do wish they incorporated nitter as well, but otherwise it's got every privacy respecting frontend and has a lot of public instances in their default listings. One of the best extensions I've come across.
z3rOR0ne
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Honestly, reddit's search engine is okay, but yeah it doesn't get as exact as standard search engines because I think it prioritizes keywords from the post title over comments and also prioritizes most recent posts over subject relevance. That said, the old reddit posts are still going to be accessible via standard not google search engines.
I'll admit this is somewhat of a bandaid fix, as should reddit keep this deal with google going, eventually this workaround will prove less effective than it currently is.
This workaround just gets you the newest posts related to your query, and otherwise, for older posts, the search term reddit in search engines is still superior. So I don't know, it's the best solution I can think of for now.
I've posted this elsewhere, but it bears repeating:
Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.
!reddit search term
or:
!r search term
It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing's results. It's that simple.
You can even use a redirect extension like Libredirect in conjunction with this Duckduckgo feature to redirect your search to a privacy respecting frontend like redlib.
It gets crazy when you use a redirection extension like libredirect. If you tell libredirect to redirect to a redlib instance, the !r or !reddit bang will try to send your query directly to reddit, and then instead you're presented with the search results on a no JavaScript frontend. This is what I do, a lot less clutter than reddit's site.
Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.
!reddit search term
It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing's results. It's that simple.
Even better. Thanks, been a while since I've looked up specific ddg bangs.
Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.
!reddit search term
It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing's results. It's that simple.
The USA was never great, unless you consider the mass enslavement and genocide of people to be its crowning achievement, which sadly many do, and that is what the Nazi/Fascist/Republican Party means when they say, "Make America Great Again."
Well that's annoying. One work around is to use a redirect extension like Libredirect and you can still search via the !reddit bang on DuckDuckGo. Thusly if I type into my search bar which has DuckDuckGo as default:
!reddit some new post or topic, it will search reddit for the search term, then when it attempts to load the reddit page, the libredirect extension will redirect and show the results.
Requires a bit of configuring and sure is annoying, but hey, no Google search necessary to get the up to date reddit threads.
Oh wow, who knew that the MAGA crowd was full of a bunch of misogynist incestuous rapists!?...oh right, everybody...everybody knew that.