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View submission: What's up with Reddit Search?
I submitted these points through the survey but posting them here for further discussion can't hurt.
My four feature requests:
1. To echo what u/SheeEttin said, including snippets and/or highlighting what exactly matched your search terms. This would massively speed up the process of finding exactly what you're looking for.
2. Introduce a sort by oldest option. As a mod, it can be important to find the first occurrence of a topic on a certain subreddit. Right now, there's no (good) option to do that: Google doesn't offer such an option and it doesn't have access to the full Reddit database in the first place & Pushshift will also struggle if the content is old enough.
3. Introduce some of Pushshift search parameters. Pushshift is an amazing tool as is, especially for someone that develops Reddit bots, but its database only goes back so far. Naturally, it would be best to have all of Pushshift's parameters but date ranges & the ability to search comments just as effectively are most important to me personally. As a nice side-effect, additional search parameters could also be an invaluable tool to 3rd-party researchers.
4. I understand this is simply a pipe dream but reverse image search would be great. Finding the OP of a certain image is something that I do quite regularly as a mod and reverse image search is the only option to really do that. Google works well enough in most cases but again, it doesn't have access to the full Reddit database.
P.S.: I'm very excited to hear that comment search is being worked on and hope this will at least be subreddit-wide or even side-wide.
There's nothing here!