Reddit Adds Comment Searching To Help Improve Search Results

Today, Reddit is updating its search feature to index comments. The Verge reports: For the first time, users will have an option to pull results from replies to posts, making it less of a hassle to find something specific outside of general Reddit posts, communities, and people. The rollout is Reddit's latest change to help users encounter content from outside their usual subreddits following the addition of a discovery tab on its mobile app in January.

Reddit says that in a user survey last year, the ability to search comments was one of the top results. During "limited initial testing," Reddit claimed 26,000 users went on to use the feature against five billion comments. Right now, the new ability is available globally for users searching on Reddit's desktop website, but not via its apps. The company "is also updating its search experience to help users find more relevant search results written by real people," adds The Verge. "For example, when searching for something, instead of showing search results with that exact wording, related results will pop up instead to make the search less restrictive."

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[spads]

It's the biggest one of a concept that is pure gold. Because of all the work of great contributors over the years, there is definite treasure, but the moderation now is the worst of that type of shit. Almost makes you want to burn the ship to get rid of the rats. Just glad Aaron Swartz didn't see what's become of it.

Seriously

[themusicgod1]

With so much censorship what's even the point of caring about what you can search for? The good stuff isn't there, and hasn't been in years.

In other news...

[NateFromMich]

Slashdot looks about the same for 20 years.

Reddit has it ...

[damn_registrars]

... but slashdot still does not. I remember many years back for a while slashdot ran into some terrible new bug and had to admit their internal "search" system was broken completely and so they let google index the content. The crowd rejoiced at being able to search through the site in a useful way.

Then slashdot "fixed" the search and went back to the useless search system we see today. That was well over 10 years ago. I'd say we could hope for a working search here in another 10 years but that wou

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[drinkypoo]

You're not wrong about the general incompetence and malaise that has afflicted Slashdot. The lack of competence was always a serious problem to be honest, with fixes and features trickling out at a snail's pace, now it's even more of one. I dimly remember when there was talk of updating Slashcode to handle Unicode, for example. (Nope, not interested in that debate, which is dumb anyway because you can allow only specific glyphs and strip the rest.)

But I give zero fucks about comment searching, the correct a

instead of showing results with that exact wording

[ayesnymous]

So it will be like Google that returns pages that don't even include the search terms I entered.

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[BoogieChile]

It's a phenomena [youtu.be] that is not peculiar to Google

Wow!

[ZaxbyChicken]

Comment search?! What's next, sliced bread?