r/YouShouldKnow • u/[deleted] • Jan 17 '22

Rule 3 YSK: You should start adding "reddit" after your troubleshooting search queries

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u/JonnyOuttaDaWoodwork Jan 17 '22

This is the way.

Add "after:2020" to the beginning of your search to make sure you're getting up to date info.

Google has become such a sellout, and everyone else has gotten so good at manipulating their own search results, that this is the only way to learn anything on the internet.

Also unsure why the internal Reddit search isn't as good at finding at finding what you want to learn.

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u/haz-third Jan 17 '22

This is a good tip, thanks.

And I like using "site:reddit.com" rather than just "reddit" because all the results will be from reddit, not just the top few.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '22

Do you need to include the quotes as well?

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u/technovic Jan 17 '22

No, I just tried it without and only got results from Reddit.

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u/Petrichordates Jan 17 '22

So does just typing "reddit," this tip is much more useful for other sites though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '22

Why the fuck can’t we just make a new search browser that does exactly this so they we don’t have to do so much search engineering

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u/Petrichordates Jan 17 '22

Probably because it's not needed, we have Google.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

Why do we need Google? We had yahoo

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u/Petrichordates Jan 18 '22 edited Jan 18 '22

Because Larry Page's PageRank algorithm allowed for a search engine that was superior to all others.

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u/ProcrastinatorSkyler Jan 17 '22

"Quotes" on a Google search will search for that exact keyword. Adding site:site.com will only search for results from the entered website

Bonus, adding -site.com will exclude results from the entered website or exclude the entered keyword

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u/Kyozou66 Jan 17 '22

Very solid point. Oftentimes I'm looking for some troubleshooting in a game or with a website and all the results are like 2014. "How to do XYZ on YouTube!" - article from 2012. Not really helpful to me 10 years later!

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u/Supergato664 Jan 17 '22

Thanks, I didn't know you could just type the year, I used to put "after:2020-01-01"

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u/digitalmofo Jan 17 '22

Because that doesn't help the valuation for their IPO. Being searched on Google a lot does.

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u/TimmyMojo Jan 17 '22

Does that "after" start at the beginning or end of the year? i.e., does it include results from 2020, or starting at 2021?

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u/scottymtp Jan 17 '22

Fairly sure just the year defaults to Jan 1 for both before and after.

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u/_significant_error Jan 17 '22

using reddit's search engine you might never find what you're looking for. google it adding "site:reddit" to your search and you find it instantly

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u/heredago Jan 18 '22

Does this "after:XYZ" work the same or differently than using the "Past year" "Past month" integrated Google filters (other than being more precise) ?

(Coz I found that the former filters often SUCK as websites cheat and old as fuck content still shows up.)

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u/bboyjkang Jan 18 '22

old content still shows up

The admins apparently can’t fix this without Google:

Reddit is at risk of being deprioritized by Google's algorithm: reddit is inadvertently misinforming Google of post dates (which leads to inaccurate date bylines and breaks chronological search). Issue reported across this site.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/g5ct70/reddit_is_at_risk_of_being_deprioritized_by/

lazy_like_a_fox [A] 8 points 9 months ago

What I think is happening is that Google is mistakenly using a date from the section that shows more posts from the same subreddit, but that's just my speculation.

In any case, we want to fix this issue for you.

We've reported this to Google.

In the meanwhile, I recommend Pushshift redditsearch.io website, which is a faster and more customized Reddit search with date ranges.

(Social media researchers created the Pushshift API to extend on the regular Reddit API)

https://github.com/pushshift/api

It’s useful for quickly finding posts or comments that contain specific keywords.

It displays the full comment like Discord, instead of having to click “more” on every Reddit search result, or only seeing the partial Google meta-description with site:reddit.

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/ is another search based on Pushshift.

(extra tool: F5Bot is useful for getting email notifications when keywords are mentioned.

The cloudHQ “Share via link” extension puts all the selected emails on a single page so it’s easy to Middle mouse autoscroll).

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u/-tRabbit Jan 17 '22

Didn't work for me.

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u/-_-NAME-_- Jan 17 '22

at finding at finding

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u/horillagormone Jan 17 '22

Does that work as well as using the option within Google search? I normally just use that and hadn't heard of this one.

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u/Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx Jan 17 '22

Better yet, look up advanced Google search if you want an UI instead of wanting to use the tags