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by simonbarker87 1841 days ago
Huh, you've given me a realisation - I don't do 'generic searching' on google anymore. I hear people say "google is broken" and I always think "it's fine for me" but thats because I'm searching for specific things, error messages, function calls etc. If I am searching for general interest stuff I tend to search reddit, hacker news or some other topic specific community rather than just search google
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I just realised I do something similar - almost every term I search will have the word "Reddit" appended to it. It's not perfect, but at least the content is intended for human consumption.
Same for me, `site:reddit.com` for almost everything that has to do with product recommendations or reviews.
Putting this here makes it even less likely marketers will miss "gaming reddit" as part of their strategy.
They already do, but mods have a vested interest in keeping communities clean.