[throwitawayfam]

The killer feature for me would be time filter. Google doesn't work because the dates listed on the results never match the date of the original post. For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. I assume this is some SEO bullshit that Reddit is pulling.

I've posted about this a lot as I use site:reddit.com extensively.

[weare138]

>For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google.

I've noticed this too. I think Google Search is updating the page's timestamp in the search cache every time anything changes on the page itself. So if the sub's admins change any content that displays on every page in the sub, like the rules/guidelines section or stickies a post for example, Google Search is considering it a page update even if the post itself is old.

[mardifoufs]

If there's one thing google needs to very very heavily penalize in their page rank algorithm, it's websites that outright lie about date. It makes the entire search process unusable for tons of queries, even more so than if they just didn't display any date.

If that's impossible they should at least keep track of page history independently of what the page itself says. Especially when it's very obviously just done to cheat the algo. There's no way for an archived 7 year old reddit article to actually change, and honestly even in an active post I don't see any reason for updating the timestamps.

[aghilmort]

founder of Breeze where our core thesis is searching by date, and yeah, it's a massssssssssssssive problem. there's only so much we can do for queries we support that are serviced by other indexes, we're adding an archive compare for queries where we're doing the indexing along with the query and even in that situation, yeah, it's just a lot of work and again only so much can do

[unclekev]

> For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google.

This has been frustrating me to no end.

Te results on Google will show the reddit posts with dates within the last 6-12 months for the posts, then when I click into the post it was actually made 3-4 years ago.

There will be "<Post title - reddit.com> - 05/05/21", then you click that link, and the post was actually made 7 years ago, with the last comment being 7 years ago.

[oars]

This is the only reason I sometimes use Reddit's search over Google.

If this problem was solved then it's game over.

[aghilmort]

try Breeze -- time + topic filters are our core thesis -- just use after:YYYY-MM-DD and before:YYYY-MM-DD in any search, here's today's results for Tiger Woods at Masters -> https://breezethat.com/?q=tiger+woods+masters+after%3A2022-0...

site:reddit.com also works and we'll be adding a reddit tab in results soooooon

lots more examples of time-based queries in this view of my twitter timeline, https://twitter.com/search?q=dotdotjames%20breezethat.com&sr...