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I made a web search tool [0] that pulls Reddit results (and other sources) directly into the SERP.

I'm working off the thesis that combining highly relevant vertical results is the best way to combat SEO.

As a fun aside, when I did a Show HN for this tool, the title was "Runnaroo, a new search engine that didn't raise 37.5M to launch" as a friendly joke toward Neeva. Dang changed it later to be just "Runnaroo, a new search engine."

[0] Example search for "bose headphones reddit": https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=bose%20headphone%20redd...

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This is an interesting idea! It's something I've been thinking a lot about recently, so it's nice to see someone actually do it.

I saw from your previous post that you're using Google for the web results, but the only option listed in their docs has a 10k queries/day limit. Have you been able to get them to agree to a higher limit, or are you planning to move off of Google once your traffic grows?

Also, your example search has a character encoding issue - "Stolen iPad Pro & Bose headphones".

i've found runnaroo to be super helpful with programming related results where i can actually find useful blog posts instead of those spam SEO low quality ones. awesome site. thanks

i love this. in the article, it's mentioned how one idea is stackoverflow results, and then i see that that's nicely done in runnaroo. as well as others depending on the search. excellent search tool. cheers!

sort by date doesn't work. Neither does on google, but if you're trying to get me to bookmark, what's your distinct advantage over the easy to remember site:reddit.com?

Your feedback is helpful, I just added the sort by data feature, and it is a work in progress.

Regarding, "what's your distinct advantage over the easy to remember site:reddit.com"

It's arguable that just typing 'reddit' with the query is easier to remember than typing "site:reddit.com" for most people, but you can have the best of both worlds and still use the site operator and get direct Reddit results [0].

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=site%3Areddit.com+best+...

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