I guess many people do that, but it shows the review system failed miserably when you look for quality information on reddit. I mean, in theory, reddit would have all kinds of noise and fake opinions, whereas Amazon etc. should have only verified and curated reviews, including methodologies for spotting abuse and procedures for manual verification. Well, the economics of scale that drives them insane profits is also the cause they lost this battle.

Are there any nice Chrome extensions to expand on Google that anyone can recommend? Would be nice to have a default Reddit setting, or a 'search reddit' button on Google.

There's a couple other ones as well besides Reddit, particularly around key forums. Shouldn't be too hard to allow custom-buttons.

In general now that people are here, I'd be pretty interested to know what people's top 5 extensions are outside of the regular (uBlock, Pocket etc). They're quite powerful but I don't use that many actually.

In the EU I use a no-cookies extension, though imperfect. I also use 'video speed controller' religiously to easily watch/listen to content faster. But overal I find few extensions very useful and the ones I use cause issues on a small fraction of sites. Happy to hear from computer super-users what they use.

I do the same, but I think there are an increasing number of astroturf campaigns taking advantage of that, too.

Google search improved web but then ruined it for no fault of its own [0]. There is just so much spam.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Except Google still displays a lot of archived very old threads as if they are new[0] so often searching for recent reviews that way is annoying.

0. https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/bad-search/

Or simply add "Reddit" to your search query. The first result will be from Reddit. And there will be a URL to other results from there.

Yes but unfortunately it still creates links using the “new” Reddit interface. Installing an add-on like Old Reddit Redirect helps to restore sanity when searching by site.