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		sydthrowaway on Oct 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What software engineers should know about search (... An interesting example is the search query “<question about anything> reddit”. Without the ‘reddit’ qualifier, the results are nearly always spammy and useless (as much as modern Reddit tries to compete here notwithstanding)

abecedarius on Oct 18, 2021 | [–]

Reddit itself has an annoying dark-patterns UI. You have to edit the URL into old.reddit.com to get a reasonable page to read.

EE84M3i on Oct 18, 2021 | [–]

Its pretty often that I do a search, get bad results, then add reddit and get good results, so I hope some data analyst in Google sees those as opportunities to improve.

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