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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by SquishyPanda23 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:59PM (#21403874)
> I've taken to appending "reddit" to many of my search queries

On duck duck go you can use !r to search reddit if you're so inclined.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by function_seven on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:04PM (#21403943)
Unfortunately that redirects to Reddit's own search engine, which is often worthless for what I'm looking for.

For example, if I'm looking for a comment that refers to my lat 2014 model of some widget, Reddit's search will fail to find it, and try to show me subreddits instead that are tangentially related to what I'm looking for.

Still a good tip, don't get me wrong. But I find that asking the search engine to do the search for me—with "reddit" as one of the search terms—often gives me the result I'm looking for faster than using Reddit's own search.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by daseiner1 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:58PM (#21404354)
prepending

  site:reddit.com
or

  site:reddit.com/r/<subreddit>
to your search works even better IME
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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by function_seven on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:05PM (#21404404)
Heh. That’s what I do. I just didn’t remember!
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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by SquishyPanda23 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:17PM (#21404058)
Sure that makes sense. Their search engine is not amazing.
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