Reddit on Thursday announced updates to its search engine aimed at making it easier for Reddit users to find exactly what they are looking for. In addition to the updated design, users can now search for comments on the social network.
Reddit search can currently find posts, communities, and people. As of today, it can also find comments. According to the platform, this was one of the most requested features by users based on last year’s survey. A small group of users have already been invited to try out the new comment search, and Reddit says the feedback has been very positive.
With this new feature, users looking for specific discussions or comments on Reddit no longer need to click on multiple posts and then scroll through thousands of comments to find topics that are relevant to them. The new feature solves this problem and quickly gives redditors the ability to directly search for comments and refine their searches by searching for comments in specific communities.
However, this is just one of the changes that Reddit is making to its search engine. Results shown to users will now prioritize posts over content types, and the design has been updated to be simpler. Reddit reports that the search engine is now more advanced to reduce unexpected results.
Search has become more flexible when it comes to displaying results that don’t quite match the message text. As such, Reddit has seen a 60% increase in search results for queries that previously returned no results at all. The platform is also capable of understanding user patterns to improve results and identifies user clicks to make a particular result more relevant to future searches.
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The updates are now rolling out to Reddit users on desktop and are expected to roll out to mobile platforms soon.
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