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I've actually been turning to reddit for a lot of my searches. Yes, you read that right, reddit.

I found that a lot of times when I was looking for general advice from other people (recent examples: how to treat dandruff, how to start a garden) I actually get really well thought out answers from real people who have done the same things. And I know they're not trying to sell me anything or just get page views.

Doing those same searches on google just returns vapid SEO filled articles from ehow and wikihow, and those kind of places, pretty worthless.



I do the same but with one twist for better results. I go to Google and search like this:

  site:reddit.com start a garden
Google is a much better Reddit search than Reddit is.


Google used to have a "discussions" results option I used heavily for the same reason. But they inexplicably killed it: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-filters-gone-17993...


Same here. I've been using reddit primarily as a search engine for the last two years. It's a good supplement to filter out the bs.




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