> I really miss Forum search in Google.

You may find this useful: https://boardreader.com/

This is awesome, how did I not know it existed. Thank you!

Always happy to help!

I try to "collect" search engines, so I'm always interested in finding more/sharing the ones I've found.

One I just recently discovered is symbolhound.com. It's nice because it lets you search for characters that google absolutely refuses to treat as search terms. I needed to debug some makefiles and bash scripts the other day (not my strong suit!) and it helped me understand some of the weird syntax I was seeing.

As others have mentioned, Google no longer respecting literal search terms has made it much worse for many types of searches. DDG had been great at this, but sadly has been following in Google's footsteps the past few years.

Ooh thanks! I'll throw that on the list!

Do you ever publish your list?

After reading through this discussion, I am inclined to explore search.

This crap sneaks up on a person one little adaptation at a time.

Searching on Yandex was a wake up call.

Most of it is here [0].

I update whenever I remember, which is sometimes.

It is currently up to date, except for the above linked engine. It doesn't have as many special purpose engines as I'd like though.

[0] http://a-shared-404.com/other-stuff/

Thanks. OctoPart can go on your speciality list, fwiw

Many thanks, I would've killed for this about a month ago.

So would I. Got it late myself.

Now I'm waiting for your Show HN curated list of alternative search engines

I've thought about doing it before. I don't have quite enough to justify a Show HN though.

You can see the list here[0], and if you see more feel free to send them my way!

[0] http://a-shared-404.com/other-stuff/

Same! I just tried a few "likely to find in forum" searches and it hit!

Added to my playbook. Thanks again.

Yesterday I discovered, if you go to the 2nd page of the search results the "site:example.com" no longer works. The user hostility is shocking.

Can't reproduce: http://pub.lrem.net/2021/03/Teifo4sh/serp.jpg

You too eh? Over the past decade I've gone from loving reddit to actively avoiding it in most cases, but if I'm looking for specific info on a niche topic, adding "reddit" to a search is often the only way I can get real content written by and for real human beings instead of SEO spam.

Sinister twist though: the SEO crowd has gotten wise to this. I've noticed recently that they've started throwing "reddit" into their spam as a random keyword.

>"I really miss Forum search in Google"

I absolutely hated when they did remove it. I was able to sort of mitigate it by adding "forums" and "discussions" to search terms but it is not the same of course.