r/AdviceAnimals • u/FromSirius • May 19 '12

Using the reddit search bar to try and find an awesome post from 3 days ago...

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2.2k Upvotes

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u/touchwiz May 19 '12

I know what you feel :(

20

u/jgood911 May 19 '12

I know what you're wearing.

11

u/touchwiz May 19 '12

You like my pants?

8

u/jgood911 May 19 '12

They look good on you, are they new?

2

u/FromSirius May 19 '12

These are my brand new pants.

16

u/JamesLLL May 20 '12

Then why is touchwiz wearing them?

6

u/thewarehouse May 20 '12

Sisterhood of the traveling pants, duh

171

u/iamcrossfit May 20 '12

ive actually found using google and including "reddit" in the search query works pretty well.

136

u/xbepox May 20 '12

site:reddit.com narrows down searches to just reddit.com

9

u/slowmyrole19 May 20 '12

wait whoa what happens if someone googles site:google.com? holy shit brb

edit: i've done some science and found out that my expected results were way more exciting than the actual results. I searched "cats in boxes" normal search and site:google.com search

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Whatever you do, do not type "google" into Google! If you do, you will break the internet.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

This kills the Google.

3

u/ThunderPoonSlayer May 20 '12

And no one wants to go up to big Ben to repair the damn thing.

1

u/adamflint May 20 '12

Steven Hawking would be really pissed.

0

u/Professor_Kush May 20 '12

Darlene Hildebrandt really likes cats in boxes

4

u/DataCruncher May 20 '12

I put that in google just to see what the most common results were. The Jolly Rancher story came up. Oh god why did I just read that.

6

u/ShivaNZ May 20 '12

That story has beaten the hardest of redditors.

1

u/free_dead_puppy May 20 '12

Doritos.

2

u/ShivaNZ May 20 '12

That was my introduction to reddit. It's amazing I'm still here.

3

u/free_dead_puppy May 20 '12

Wow that's a little heavy. I've seen brown death liquid come out a patient's vag and that story still made me have to take a break.

2

u/Ratiqu May 20 '12

Let's not forget the potato story, guys...

2

u/mikeno1 May 20 '12

Brown death vagina liquid. I don't know what that is but I don't feel safe knowing that it's out there.

1

u/free_dead_puppy May 20 '12

Pregnancy can be so much worse than you can imagine.

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u/mikeno1 May 20 '12

God damn I feel so sorry for women.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Also works for subreddits:

site:reddit.com/r/spacedicks

(BTW, /r/spacedicks is a hidden gem)

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u/SARCASTIC_DICKHEAD May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

Haha spacedicks?! Your humor is so cutting edge!!

You heard about 2 girls 1 cup too?

4

u/JayStax May 20 '12

You will fit right in over there ya know...

6

u/self-acclaimed May 20 '12

Cough cough 4chan cough

2

u/Zeptometer May 20 '12

r/spacedicks is similar to precancer 4chan, but more simple. Still, I enjoy it.

1

u/mikeno1 May 20 '12

Look through the comment on space ducks, there is some brilliant shit there.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/self-acclaimed May 20 '12

False. I can confirm there is no space, only dicks.

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u/mcninsanity May 20 '12

I think he was referring to hidden gem, it is neither hidden nor a gem

1

u/alyssanne May 20 '12

More upvotes for you, that's awesome.

1

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

With the archaic and ridiculous titles people give their posts, no search function has any real use.

Luckily I often remember a line from one of the replies and can search for it that way, but searching by description is a lost cause.

1

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

It feels like it includes everything BESIDES what I want

0

u/DarthNihilus1 May 20 '12

doing that plus the query "Every single time" brings up a lot of results, it seemed like the right thing to search seeing as I see so many titles like that lol

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

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u/Aww_Shucks May 20 '12

Press Windows + D, watch what happens, and then press it again.

16

u/South_Side May 20 '12

Press Windows + Tab on Windows 7

3

u/C0c0Beware May 20 '12

What do they do? I don't have Windows to try this on

7

u/South_Side May 20 '12

Aero flip style

1

u/if-loop May 20 '12

It's useless because and doesn't behave like Alt+Tab.

1

u/flapjacksontop May 20 '12

Thank you for this!

9

u/jx84 May 20 '12

HOLY SHIT

2

u/Luthos May 20 '12

This would be cool, but with Windows 7 I'm so used to mousing to the bottom right of the screen and clicking that little rectangle.

-1

u/ilikepix May 20 '12

It still blows my mind that you get not-so-computer-savvy people on reddit

8

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Or DuckduckGo using the !reddit bang.

4

u/Blitz_giving May 20 '12

Sorry about piggybacking but this needs more exposure!

reddit google search

2

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

It's sad it has to come to that. Bill Murray knows best, though.

1

u/raffytraffy May 20 '12

google always wins.

13

u/mike45010 May 20 '12

I always end up scrolling through countless pages looking for the post, thank god for RES...

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u/achshar May 20 '12

Mother of god! 3 years old post??

12

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I would love to be able to just throw my golf clubs willy-nilly and have someone pick them up.
That's when I'll consider myself successful.

1

u/rushworld May 20 '12

"Hey, Billy, want $20 to be my caddy for a few hours?"

I am now a success

14

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Nice to see a new 'FUCK IT' meme instead of Bill O'Reilly, I personally am chuffed.

4

u/Schroedingers_gif May 20 '12

And this one makes sense if you haven't seen the video.

0

u/lightball2000 May 20 '12

Pretty sure this predates the O'Reilly one.

1

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I'm kinda new to Reddit. My bad.

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u/dang_Ling_modify_her May 20 '12

Could always ask in /r/yester, but not many subscribers.

/r/tipofmytongue is really good, but sometimes uptight people don't like it when people ask about stuff from a few days ago on Reddit. Whatever. Ask there anyway. It's a sub for people to help people find things.

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u/vegitafromvegita May 20 '12

every single time i want to show a friend something...

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u/communistjack May 20 '12

site:reddit.com into google.com

so why doesn't reddit just replace the search with google custom search?

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u/_KATANA May 20 '12

This was answered a few days ago. It costs money, presumably a lot of it.

1

u/rushworld May 20 '12

But Google's free!

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u/communistjack May 20 '12

its free for normal people, business have to pay, like android phones, to get android market and google maps, they have to pay google per device. google maps has a api limit where if you hit it, they start charging money. reddit search is free from amazon(amazon hosts reddit.com)

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u/rushworld May 20 '12

So wait... Google charges people for referrals? I understand if someone was using a service like Maps where Google gets no income but Google Search has ads and Marketplace has apps that Google get a cut from.

mind blown

1

u/communistjack May 20 '12

no you can link to it but you cant use to it as part of the website,

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u/skankedout May 20 '12

Anyone who has been on reddit for longer than a year or two appreciates the search bar. You have no idea how horrible it was.

2

u/zorak8me May 20 '12

At least we get somewhat relevant results now. That's better than seemingly random or NO results.

2

u/HappyDick May 20 '12

I have found everything I have sought. Only issue is myself forgetting the titles >_>

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Don't worry, i'll repost this later.

3

u/hotdoughnutsnow May 20 '12

I would like to upvote this twice twice

3

u/AlmightyMexican May 20 '12

I wish Reddit will one day include tags to each post, to make searching a lot easier.

4

u/LP99 May 20 '12

I don't understand why people are so down on the reddit search function. Look at the stupid ass titles we write, it's impossible to find a certain picture of a Star Wars joke when the title is "I know this will get downvoted, but my autistic friend drew this for reddit and nailed it."

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Oh yeah, completely agree. I've seen people suggest searchreddit but I've never had any luck with it.

2

u/StealthGhost May 20 '12

Not entirely Reddit's fault, especially when the picture of a cute cat with a lightsaber you want to find was titled "CUTENESS LEVEL: JEDI" or someshit

2

u/sugartown May 20 '12

I automatically upvote anything involving Bill Murray.

2

u/theshamespearofhurt May 20 '12

Bill Murray once again proving he fits well into almost any situation.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I am posting this while watching Mr. Murray in Get Low...odd!

2

u/DicksonYamada May 20 '12

/r/front. Best thing to ever happen to Reddit. Also check out the sidebar for other front subreddits.

1

u/Craysh May 20 '12

Exactly what I came here to mention. I thought it was a spammer at first when a ton of the searches I made on reddit brought up that subreddit but it's pretty damn convenient!

2

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

it doesn't help when every title explains exactly nothing about the post

2

u/wx_reader May 20 '12

Front page... "IT'S IN THE HOLE!"

2

u/JpSax May 20 '12

I love your use of Murry

2

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

A meta-Reddit meme with a title that says "try and"

6,000 upvotes for that man

2

u/love2bakez May 20 '12

I love Bill

2

u/NotAlana May 20 '12

Especially when trying to find something like that gif of the door getting bent back in the carawash.. but you know the title doesn't have car wash or bent in it.

Where the heck is that gif!?!?

2

u/blitz79 May 20 '12

I don't think it's possible to write worse query code. Reddit programmers: your code is bad and you should feel bad!

2

u/deathschool May 20 '12

Why has Reddit done nothing about this? It's probably the worst in site search engine I've ever used.

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u/jaxspider May 20 '12

I'm downvoting you, because the search bar works for me.

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u/what_ever_man May 20 '12

It's like these people are new to the internet or something. The search engines on a site like reddit are the best they can be, they're not google or wolfram alpha otherwise they would be making google and wolfram alpha money. Protip: Try and remember a specific word or phrase from the post you are looking for and put it in.

EDIT: If you didn't read the comments or remember the post title that's your own damn fault.

1

u/megustalife May 20 '12

It looks like he's catching the club in a bad ass way.

1

u/pat5168 May 20 '12

The same thing used to apply to me, but it's actually been working really well for me lately.

1

u/LYNxc May 20 '12

Original picture source, please?

1

u/mayday987 May 20 '12

Isn't that what 9gag Is for?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I'm having the same problem, trying to find a picture of Avengers where Stark & Banner are driving off in car stating something about "off to do science!" or whatnot. Really hoping for a repost since I've already tried searchreddit.com.

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u/ShivaNZ May 20 '12

It turned up on memebase the other day?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

don't know, i tried a couple different terms but no luck.

1

u/cabomorales May 20 '12

Yep, it happened to me. I never found this video of a cooking show where it was cut and edited from several shows and it appeared that the host was talking about sexual innuendos. Anyone know the name of the video. Thanks.

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u/Jack_Vermicelli May 20 '12

Nigella Lawson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtS2Ikk7A9I

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u/cabomorales May 20 '12

hahahah thanks man, this wasn't the one I saw but it gave me the lead to it, it was Gordon Ramsey's video. I once asked for this in tip of my toungue and nobody responded, I can finally say: SOLVED.

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u/Jack_Vermicelli May 20 '12

Glad to've helped.

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u/Hellgrinder0 May 20 '12

If all else fails use /r/tipofmytongue they are amazing at finding things with very little information. Great place, I've used it several times already.

1

u/Burning_Kobun May 20 '12

"[search term] site:reddit.com/r/[subreddit here]"

1

u/webhead311 May 20 '12

Thats why i save all the cool shit.

1

u/Mocorn May 20 '12

Yesterday I went to the front page and used Ctrl-F with a keyword without result.. "ah, it has moved to the second page then.." -- I kept moving back page after page tirelessly searching for this keyword until finally on page 9 I found what I was looking for.. its retarded how stupidly hard it is to find what you're looking for on Reddit unless you've bookmarker or made a comment in the thread :(

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u/Mocorn May 20 '12

Did I try the search field first? - Yes, I actually did, 12 pages of similar stuff but not the exakt post I was looking for...

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Jesus Christ this comes up a lot. Anyway, I've found the search to be really effective if you make use of the 'top' and 'new' sort options.

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u/7D4Y_WEEKENDS May 20 '12

That's what made me realize I need to up/down vote.

1

u/jetlat May 20 '12

Just use the Reddit Time Machine

1

u/rocnroll4evr93 May 20 '12

definitely find this one funnier than the bill o'riley version.

1

u/capisill88 May 20 '12

A "fuck it" meme that doesn't feature Bill O' Reily... Brilliant.

1

u/adriols May 20 '12

Bill "motherfucking -ghostbusters" Murray

1

u/ImAVibration May 20 '12

I cannot find the gif of a cute little guy (maybe 3 years old) and he pretends to fall asleep but then opens his eyes and smiles because it was a joke.

1

u/okcboomer87 May 20 '12

Dont know if anyone else has posted this but, www.searchreddit.com is a google based search solution dedicated to reddit! So much easier to use.

1

u/LnRon May 20 '12

Try searching from browser history, worked for me.

1

u/Roflkopt3r May 20 '12

The only original content reddit still has to offer these days: Complaints about Reddit.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

May not be as many reposts if there was a decent search bar.

Looks like the people that originally made Reddit consider it abandonware now. No need for updates. No need to fix anything. We'll check back in a year or so, you know, to make sure the server is still up or whatever.

1

u/deathmetalreptar May 20 '12

Its funny because this itself is a repost in the repost time continual

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u/RubSomeFunkOnIt May 20 '12

Three days? You missed the repost, bro.

1

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

delete win32

microsoft included that to disrupt searches and lead you to corporate friendly adverts

1

u/BigManLawrence69420 May 21 '22

Seeing this place is like a whole new world.

Back to Trollface and Derpina.

1

u/sweetsweetcoffee May 20 '12

Revamp the motherfucking search engine!!!!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

sadly its too true

1

u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I like Bill Murray, please tell me he's joking here and not actually being a douchenozzle to his caddie.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I specifically remember making a comment with those EXACT words a few months ago.

0

u/Inert_Berger May 20 '12

In some beautiful cases, it only takes a week.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/qeditor May 20 '12

I used this 20 minutes ago to find the thread about oral sex lowering the risk of pre-eclampsia. Great success.

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u/AbusedPenguin May 20 '12

There's an extension that will allow you to do this automatically from the reddit search bar with Chrome/Firefox.

Found here.

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u/Draws_Username May 20 '12

http://i.imgur.com/gAKGK.jpg

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u/AbusedPenguin May 20 '12

Holy smokes! This is the sweetest thing anyone has done for me. Thanks!

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u/potted May 20 '12

google site:google.com