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.
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yes. Also, !r is reddit also.
Even better. Thanks, been a while since I've looked up specific ddg bangs.
This has historically worked because Bing (from which DDG draws results) previously indexed Reddit. What indications do we have that it will work after this change? As I read the articles, I thought it wouldn't work going forward.
Bangs don't actually search w/ Duckduckgo, they just redirect your search to whatever search provided is configured for that bang. In this case, it just goes to reddit.com and uses its search function. They're really handy when you definitely want results from a given service and don't want to type out "site:service.com" or whatever.
it just goes to reddit.com and uses its search function.
oh god.
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.
Gotcha, thanks!
This isn't going to hurt Google's antitrust cases at all... Noooo sir.
Well, it only gives a bigger reason for other search engines to index the competition.
Kagi can still search Reddit content tho (blocked part of url because I have Kagi rewrite url to redirect to my private Redlib instance)
I think this is because they use some sources from Google and Brave?
And I'm doing the opposite over here lol
Man reddit has a treasure trove of answers to shit though, pinterest though that is a must.
I'm convinced that typo is on purpose.
What typo?
blocked part of url because I have Kagi rewrite url to redirect to my private Redlib instance
I had no idea this was a thing. Thats going straight on my self-host todo list.
not everyone want to pay though
Yeah, I know, Reddit is just being asshole for another time as we all know
I have the assumption that kagi's results from reddit have gotten sparse lately. but maybe it's just me
I setup a Lens so that if my query contains a single letter 'r'', only Reddit results will be returned.
I still append reddit to my query. it shows a handful of reddit links at the top. the rest are just random sites.
One time, I even came across a SEO optimized site that had the word "reddit" scattered all over with nothing but nonsense.
Yeah, always site:reddit.com if I need it, SEO spam has gotten so trashy.
Fine by me - I don't use or like any of them, AND they will make sure I won't see them elsewhere? Jackpot
Brave is chromium dressed nicely.
No competition here.
It's a good day to be a metasearch engine user. No need to worry right now about one company essentially having a monopoly on indexing a certain site.
TBF thats like 7/8ths of search engines used by most consumers.
TBF that's a textbook monopoly.
Yeah absolutely, tear that company to a million pieces, but it would practically be a shorter list of common search engines that it can't be used on. Between Google, Brave, and Bing most other search engines are just built upon those three.
I though it is only Google, now Brave join ? What about Bing ? Do they chip in soon ?