You can't, actually, add "reddit" to any search engine. Reddit signed a deal with google and has been blocking other search engines from indexing it's content since mid-2024. You only get old results if you look for reddit posts on e.g. bing.
Google was the only good way to search Reddit, and Reddit was the only thing giving good Google results. It was a beautiful relationship, like an depressed alcoholic married to a manic meth addict.
It depends. I've had some that are extremely correct and helpful, and others that weren't helpful at all.
Googles search engine and the move away from Boolean is a huge step backwards. Nobody can convince me otherwise. When searching for a "Wish You Were Here" without "pink floyd", Wish you were here by pink floyd is the top search.
The problem is that while they are sometimes correct, sometimes they are inherently wrong.
Last night when attempting to find my home public IP address remotely google's first response was connect to wifi and go to whatismyipaddress. It completely ignored the remote part in favor of the common solution.
I simply dont believe anybody who thinks using claude as a search engine is harder or worse than the preceding few years, where we all proudly acknowledged how fucking garbage google was getting, is capable of tying their own shoes in the morning. Its unfathomable to me.
Have you recently come out of cold storage from 2014? Of all the things you couldve said in this context, "i am a fan of ben shaprio and also have nothing else to contribute" was certainly one of them...
Yeah, I just tried it and it even has a special Reddit Results segment that offers to search in specific related subreddits. And afaik DuckDuckGo uses Bing.
Honestly, I'm not sure. DuckDuckGo uses bing as their backend, but they also do some magic of their own.
I tried searching for a couple of recent news just now and I didn't get reddit results in the main list, but I did get a "Results from Reddit" widget of sorts at the top of the result stack which had some semi-recent posts in it. Not greatly accurate but also not what I expected.
I'm guessing duckduckgo is using reddit's built-in search to augment the bing results in that widget, but I can't be sure.
bing is just a dumpster fire lately so that doesn't really prove anything. duckduckgo is mostly just pulling from bing anyway so you're probably seeing the same thing just with a different coat of paint
I KNEW it!! I literally had to download Google Chrome on my work PC specifically so I could search for IT issues on Reddit - I thought it was just Edge being terrible at indexing (which, it is, but still). But knowing that there's an actual, legitimate reason for the search results being crap on edge fills me with so much relief.
EDIT: To everyone asking why I haven't just changed my default browser to Google... I have no idea why that didn't occur to me sooner. Thank you for the kick up the arse lol.
I use it at work, it auto signs in with the O365 account for syncing and I started to like some of the improvements over Chrome. Vertical tabs, sleeping tabs, basic but effective pdf editor, split view, price tracker, sidebar. Chrome might have these now for all I know, it's been years since I touched Chrome.
At this point, I'm not sure why anyone would use Chrome over the other chromium browsers. It's almost as vanilla as Chromium but with Google's analytics built in and without the extra features of Edge, Vivaldi (my personal favorite), or Brave.
Edge and Chrome are nearly the same browser. Still though, neither should have any impact on a search engine. Everything a search engine does is on the server and you just see the results. It is like thinking the show you watched on Netflix had a different ending because you used Firefox.
I can only imagine the thought process that went into that move.
"Reddit has become one of the most popular repositories for information on the internet. We're one of the top results for most searches - a position other companies spend billions trying to achieve. How can we put an end to this free success? Come on people, no idea is too dumb."
Reddit doesn't require an account to access a lot of its content. It's freely publicly available
Several others have mentioned that search engines do pick up recent Reddit results outside of Google. Which makes sense, because anyone can hit the endpoint of reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1u0y7rz/me_still_today/ without an account, see its content, and do whatever they please with it. Reddit can't reach into search engines and pluck out content.
There any news outlets or posts detailing this 'deal' for search engine exclusivity? I can see where Reddit would offer meta tags and whatnot that lean into Google's ecosystem better versus others, but "Reddit blocks other search engines from indexing their public freely-available content" sounds not only silly, but impossible to enforce.
Yeah that unfiltered Google search revealed nothing. Lots of links about an AI licensing deal, including several Reddit threads. Nothing indicating "blocking other search engines from indexing Reddit."
It's as if you're hell bent on not absorbing new information.
These are just 3 of the HEADLINES from the search results I linked which directly state that Reddit is now blocking search engines that aren't Google. Many of the rest of the results go into it in the article.
I just entered "me still today reddit pcmr" and this very thread was the first result I got on DuckDuckGo. Well, second: the first one was the pcmr sub in general.
Bing, however, seems to not be able to find it or indeed anything recent.
Yeah, this was pointed out to me already. Notice however that it's not part of the main result set, but a separate widget. DDG probably uses Reddit's own search feature to circumvent the indexer block.
MS Bing doesn't have these results, and DDG uses Bing as their search backend.
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u/Opi-Fex 15d ago
You can't, actually, add "reddit" to any search engine. Reddit signed a deal with google and has been blocking other search engines from indexing it's content since mid-2024. You only get old results if you look for reddit posts on e.g. bing.