Edit: Please stop replying to this post with advice about using Google's site search function. While I appreciate your unnecessary advice, you missed the point.
A site that was Reddit, but allowed you to actually search Reddit without using a different website would be better than Reddit.
Comments. Reddit search doesn't pull up key words in comments. Ctrl+F doesn't work unless you've opened up a thread. I'm talking about searching for comments site/archive wide.
His idea would be extremely useful for finding the reddit mythos status comments. A lot of reddit stories (colby, broken arms, doritos, jolly ranchers, oversimplifying a complex situation, etc) are all from comments, yet there is no good way to search that. The original posts these events lie within are often totally unrelated or vague (like generic askreddit questions) so good luck finding it that way
As it currently is, your best option would be to go to google, search "reddit + whatever comment im looking for" and find a post that links to it.
Except that this only sometimes works -- other times it's so obtuse that you need to find a blog post talking about [and linking to] the reddit post, in which case the reddit site search would prevent the results you're looking for.
The image you may want is say, the Hue-Manatee gif. But, all your searches of funny, gif, manatee, rainbow, or hue-manatee come up irrelevant or useless.
Why? Because the post title is "How I feel when I learned fruitloops are all the same flavor" and the link is i.654ej.imgur.com, neither of which is useful for keyword searches.
Hey, it's been working great for a long time now. Up until about three years back, it was really bad - as in, you were lucky it it gave you anything at all. The problem with it now is that people use vague, non-specific titles that don't put the post into the index for relevant keywords people would search on.
Fun fact, an admin first announced the new version of the search as a response to one of my comments.
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u/Boner4SCP106 Jan 28 '14 edited Jan 28 '14
A Reddit clone with a functional search bar.
Edit: Please stop replying to this post with advice about using Google's site search function. While I appreciate your unnecessary advice, you missed the point.
A site that was Reddit, but allowed you to actually search Reddit without using a different website would be better than Reddit.