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Hi HN! I built redditle.com for those of us who append "reddit" to our Google searches.

Reddit search isn't great (https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/lucx82/w...). But it's improving! (https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/t9nuaz/whats_up_wit...)

In the meantime, some of us still use Google to search Reddit, hence https://redditle.com

Or for some of us, because Google's results are increasingly filled with clickbait, "reddit" has been a cheatcode to navigate that. Redditle is for you too!

Is it the same as Googling "site:reddit.com"? Yes :D

Redditle also supports searching in a specific subreddit with "r/<subreddit>" e.g. "r/webdev guide to vue" would search in r/webdev.

GitHub repo - https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle

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This looks nice, congrats on shipping :)

Did you know that "Redditle" literally means either "with Reddit" or "Reddit it" in Turkish depending on context and is actually the perfect Turkish name for a service that does something using Reddit?

As a similar example, Turkish for "Google it" is "Google'la". To google is "Google'lamak".

PS: The suffixes le/la are the same, vowels in suffixes generally adapt to the word that the get attached to due to vowel harmony.

My first assumption was that it’s a reference to the obsession with “le” in rage comics on Reddit like a decade ago: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/le

Pretty sure the 'le' is from the end of 'Google'. It's Google, but just for Reddit—Redditle. I like the Turkish coincidence though!

One of my favorite tweets brought to life:

> u can google ur questions about the world and get the CIA FBI answer or u can add "reddit" to the end of it and learn the truth

Top threads in Reddit are often contrived too: comments and recommendations mimicking real flow, just like fraudulent scientific studies fill the framework to look legit and where the layperson, and even scientists who aren't great with understanding statistics will believe it - and which media easily will promote as clickbait, making it a popular "truth" that the masses get familiarized with even if a shallow and incorrect conclusion is propagated.

If looking for answers to technical questions and sick of the Stackoverflow ‘already answered’ and weird elitism, a Reddit search can be illuminating.

This is great! let me know if you'd like to integrate this as the reddit option in our desktop extension.

https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch

Just want to say that I love this - I'm the exact target for it! I had considered doing something similar as a TUI, but my lazy ass never got around to it :)

nice! I use that quite often, so it might come handy. Quick question, how did you build that ? Does Google provide any sort of API or did you build a web scraper for that ?

while idk how that was built, there are a few options on doing same:

- scraping, probably against TOU - api -> https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/ - same, except embed -> https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/

context - we use all of those plus Bing, etc. for https://breezethat.com

If you look at the source you can see they literally launch a chrome instance in a lambda and google your query with site:reddit.com prefixed

Congratulations to you for the release. It looks great. For most of the queries I get that the server is overwhelmed. Probably HN hug of death.

I would look into the Reddit trademark situation. I am pretty sure reddit only allows apps and websites to use "for Reddit" and no other name combinations with their name.

Congrats on shipping! Also congrats on your servers being overwhelmed! Clearly there's a demand here

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