<story><title>New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design</title><url>https://www.redditinc.com/blog/new-on-reddit-comment-search-improved-search-results-relevance-updated-search-design</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahtihn</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine. Search isn&amp;#x27;t a core feature for Reddit and it&amp;#x27;s certainly not &amp;quot;basic&amp;quot; functionality.</text></item><item><author>groffee</author><text>&amp;gt; With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability.&lt;p&gt;I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum&amp;#x2F;social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search.&lt;p&gt;So honest question, how does a multi-million dollar site just not have such basic functionality? Does it not matter?&lt;p&gt;Better question, and this is something I see time and again, how do sites missing such basic functionality even get any funding to start with? It&amp;#x27;s just weird. Reddit didn&amp;#x27;t even have a working user block till recently either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmlamotte</author><text>Google does an okay job and certainly is the best option for searching Reddit that I&amp;#x27;m aware of, but there are many cases where Google breaks (largely due to Reddit&amp;#x27;s site). It&amp;#x27;s common to get results that don&amp;#x27;t match anything in the content itself, but matches a title in the &amp;quot;more from this subreddit&amp;quot; section at the time Google scraped it. Dates are often wrong so adding date filters often doesn&amp;#x27;t work as expected.&lt;p&gt;Even old Reddit has the &amp;quot;more from this subreddit&amp;quot; type links now so I imagine it breaks even if you scope your query to the old domain. I noticed most of this appeared after they launched the new Reddit UI, I don&amp;#x27;t remember having this problem in the past. Note that these are problems they could likely fix so I agree, but any platform can likely build a more context aware search as well.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I work at Google but don&amp;#x27;t work on search, opinions are my own, blah blah</text></comment>
<story><title>New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design</title><url>https://www.redditinc.com/blog/new-on-reddit-comment-search-improved-search-results-relevance-updated-search-design</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahtihn</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why search is something that Reddit needs to have. Google does the job perfectly fine. Search isn&amp;#x27;t a core feature for Reddit and it&amp;#x27;s certainly not &amp;quot;basic&amp;quot; functionality.</text></item><item><author>groffee</author><text>&amp;gt; With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability.&lt;p&gt;I mean this is a straight up blatant lie, every single forum&amp;#x2F;social site out there has proper search and has for years, I know all of mine do. Most of them you even have image search.&lt;p&gt;So honest question, how does a multi-million dollar site just not have such basic functionality? Does it not matter?&lt;p&gt;Better question, and this is something I see time and again, how do sites missing such basic functionality even get any funding to start with? It&amp;#x27;s just weird. Reddit didn&amp;#x27;t even have a working user block till recently either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endisneigh</author><text>How can you search specific comments in a single Reddit post with Google accurately?&lt;p&gt;Take a recent Reddit post and try on Google:&lt;p&gt;site:&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;worldnews&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;u3vzo2&amp;#x2F;russia_warns_us_to_stop_arming_ukraine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;worldnews&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;u3vzo2&amp;#x2F;russia_wa...&lt;/a&gt; arms&lt;p&gt;Even subreddit comment search on Google is flimsy due to Reddit not properly exposing the dates, so Google&amp;#x27;s indexed dates are usually wrong.</text></comment>