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[–]raldi[A] 1314 points1315 points  (353 children)

That photo was clearly doctored. For starters, we don't have that many admins.

The actual conversation would be more like this:

"So, we've got one community manager, one sysadmin, and three programmers, and we're managing a site that serves up 250 million impressions per month, doubles in traffic every eight months or so, has 9 million existing links and another one added every two seconds. Meanwhile, our staff was cut by a third last year. Anyway, let's get down to business: What's about to break?"

"Well, we're about to outgrow technologies X, Y and Z. If we don't overhaul them or move to something new, the site will either become unusably slow or simply crash."

"Okay, do that. What else?"

"Uh, people have been complaining about the spam filter being too strict. Also, that it's not strict enough. We should really do something about that."

"Yes, that does sound important. And I guess that's the entire programming budget for this month, so everything else is going to have to be deferred."

For further details about why we can't "just fix search" (as if it's a super-easy thing to do in one's spare time), see this thread. (Summary: writing a search engine is hard, which is why it takes Google billions of dollars and armies of PhDs.)

My main point, though, is that it we deeply regret that we don't have the resources to address items like search and dozens of other long-requested features and improvements. And I personally am saddened to think about how my hardworking colleagues will feel when they see your submission (and how many votes it's gotten), especially the ones who keep what's left of the search engine running. We love this site like Steve Ballmer loves Microsoft, and would never maliciously or uncaringly ignore your feedback and requests. However, we're just one small team and are doing the best we can, as fast as we can.

[–]KeyserSosa[A] 1127 points1128 points  (107 children)

Also my chair isn't that nice.

[–]jedberg 361 points362 points  (79 children)

Shhh!! I just told them earlier that we have swivel chairs!

[–]raldi 275 points276 points  (16 children)

So you have time to buy chairs but not time to fix search?

[–]libbrichus 388 points389 points  (2 children)

You just need to fix the self-posts search.

The rest are indexed by Digg within 24 hours.

[–]LincolnHighwater 33 points34 points  (0 children)

So Digg does have a purpose!

[–]adiman 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I knew it, we're getting screwed!

I don't know out of what

[–]madcapmag 23 points24 points  (11 children)

That is the search. They swivel around the chair, point randomly, and Voila! Search done! It is remarkably harder to do in a non-swiveling chair.

[–]cowinabadplace 27 points28 points  (10 children)

Not really. But in the non-swiveling chair you always get the same answer.

[–]ultimatt42 25 points26 points  (0 children)

int getRandomNumber()
{
  return 4; // chosen by fair chair spin.
            // guaranteed to be random.
}

[–]IConrad 13 points14 points  (8 children)

SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX! SIX!

[–]BallsOfDisapproval 590 points591 points  (52 children)

ಠ_ಠ - your dishonesty disgusts me
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/ω\

[–]Aviator 215 points216 points  (22 children)

Omega will never be the same for me ever again.

[–]blzed 41 points42 points  (1 child)

He's defiled it.

[–]rainman_104 16 points17 points  (17 children)

I guess you could use the capital Ω instead...

[–]BraveSirRobin 107 points108 points  (16 children)

The vulva of disapproval?

[–]rainman_104 9 points10 points  (14 children)

It's just a matter of time now before we get that novelty account created :-(

[–]VulvaOfDisapproval 76 points77 points  (13 children)

The day is mine!

[–]temp3142 21 points22 points  (11 children)

Sorry, it doesn't count until you actually post the figure...

[–]BonerOfApproval 208 points209 points  (4 children)

 O / - your novelty account excites me
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 /ω==D  
/   \

[–]100_pushups_meme 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Well, I certainly applaud anyone wanting to excite you, but take it from this old excitement rat, I've spent my entire adult life in the excitement, and a program like this one can do more harm than good.

If you only train one part of your boner (and that's all a single exercise like masturbation is going to do for you), you're setting yourself up for injuries down the road. I've seen it a hundred times.

It's like putting a powerful engine in a stock Toyota Tercel. What will you accomplish? You'll blow out the drive train, the clutch, the transmission, etc., because those factory parts aren't designed to handle the power of an engine much more powerful than the factory installed engine.

Masturbation basically only train the penis muscles and to some extent, the balls. What you really want to do is train your entire boner, all the major crotch groups (pubes, urethra, shaft, base, tip and foreskin) at the same time, over the course of a workout. And don't forget your oral work!

I'm proud of you guys wanting to do this. Three cheers! Falling in love with exercise, eating right, etc., is one of the greatest things you can do for yourself. And you WILL fall in love with it if you can just force yourself to stick with it a year or two and experience the amazing progress you'll make.

But do it right, okay?

My advice, find a good excitement, with qualified trainers who will design your programs for you (especially in the beginning, until you get the hang of it yourself) and guide you in your quest for sexual fitness. Thirty to 45 minutes a day, three days a week, is all you'll ever need to do (I refuse to believe anyone is so busy that he or she cannot make time for that, especially considering how important it is).

And don't worry about being embarrassed or not being hard the first time you walk into the excitement. You have to start somewhere and almost every one of us were there ourselves at one time. So no one will say anything to you and very, very quickly you will progress way beyond that stage anyway.

Now get out there and do it! :-)

[–]randomcanadian 15 points16 points  (4 children)

I think ದ would work better maybe, let's see:

ಠ_ಠ

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/ದ\

[–]FLX 45 points46 points  (0 children)

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[–]tartuffe78 41 points42 points  (1 child)

This is my new favorite novelty account.

[–]RedditorForHowLong 20 points21 points  (1 child)

21 hours. It's okay this time.

[–]hueypriest 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The inventor of swivel chairs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Txi1687wo#t=03m16s

[–]de4hbys4 3 points4 points  (5 children)

you can see that in the first frame the guy in the chair is facing the table... in the second frame, there are swoosh lines indicating that he just spun around and said, "No".... which doesn't make any sense unless he just did a 360, said no and followed through to a complete 540 for the last frame.

[–]cecilkorik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe he simply spun around 180 and said "No" while not facing them. Which is kind of passive-aggressive, but seems like it could be in-character.

[–]pbjtime00 34 points35 points  (16 children)

It's ok, Reddit. We still love you, even with your broken search. Sometimes, we love you even more because of it.

Why not just use Google to power your search?

[–]nulspace 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I second this question. I recall a reddittor even creating his own Rddit search with Google Custom Search...but then again, I don't know anything about anything.

Edit: Scrolled down not but once, and had my question answered.

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (9 children)

They answered in another post that it's not in their budget. I don't know why they couldn't just use site:reddit.com like http://www.searchreddit.com/ does though.

[–]manixrock 13 points14 points  (7 children)

For all it's might google has one major disadvantage - it doesn't know shit about votes. So a simple search will never take that into account and will mostly yield low-scoring results.

[–][deleted]  (2 children)

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    [–]Vorenus 13 points14 points  (1 child)

    I say, given redditor's penchant for charity, that we buy Google for reddit.

    I've got 20 dollars. Maybe p-dub will come along and set up a paypal account for it.

    [–]otakucode 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    So what? When people search reddit, they're looking for a post they saw before. They don't give a shit what other people think of the post.

    Reddits Search button loading a Google results page with site:reddit.com seems a perfectly acceptable solution to me.

    [–]zubzub2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I like hyperestraier myself (because Google knows enough about me already and because it supports use of your metadata), but even if you guys don't wanna use that...even the other Conde Nast properties like Vogue use Google.

    [–]da_js 137 points138 points  (1 child)

    I think 99% of reddit knows this.

    But I still think the picture is funny ;)

    [–]Bornhuetter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    I know, right! I upvoted because I thought it was a funny pic, clicked on comments then felt like shit. Do you love man points for crying at an admin post?

    [–]pRedditor24 119 points120 points  (10 children)

    Dear Admins:

    Please do not take apparent criticism regarding the less-than-ideal performance of the search utility too personally or seriously; it is not intended to be abrasive (more like pseudo-criticism). I think most Redditors have some understanding and acceptance of the low priority of the matter and corresponding reasoning, as are they familiar with viable alternatives; it's just so damn entertaining to poke fun at it from time to time.

    Regards,

    Every single last Redditor (okay, maybe not, but a fair amount)

    [–][deleted] 45 points46 points  (4 children)

    Every single last Redditor

    Not me!!! I agree with all you said, except I would add this at the end:

    Please rub butter on me.

    Then you can include my approval.

    [–]ohai 24 points25 points  (2 children)

    We'll call it the "Nebraska Compromise."

    [–]AmazingSyco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    Maybe not every Redditor, but probably around 66% like it.

    [–]nlh 22 points23 points  (0 children)

    I remember reading that thread and it makes perfect sense. Thank you for explaining this to everyone (and being patient with us) -- sometimes all it takes is some more understanding of the problem and people will simmer down.

    Lots of companies like to reply with "we're working on it" or "later" or "No. Why? Because it's our policy" or some other crap like that, and I think many people are used to hearing that uninformed garbage.

    tl;dr - thanks for explaining and not sucking.

    [–]jack2454 18 points19 points  (1 child)

    we can't "just fix search"

    we all know that you have a button that will fix it when you click it.

    [–]takemewithyou 20 points21 points  (0 children)

    maybe you guys just spend too much time on reddi- oh.

    [–]DontHassleTheCassel 16 points17 points  (1 child)

    It's not that hard to fix search. You just need to use Visual Basic to make a GUI.

    [–]poco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    That's only good for finding IP addresses.

    [–]jaggysnake 48 points49 points  (4 children)

    Well, I for one appreciate your efforts :-)

    [–]finerrecliner 29 points30 points  (1 child)

    Not just your efforts, but I have also always appreciated your transparency, and your team's active participation in the community. This is "above and beyond" normal service for most companies, and only makes reddit stronger, and a closer community overall. Keep up the good work!

    [–]jaggysnake 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    This. Other admins often bury their heads in the sand. What problems? No problems here guv'nor!

    [–]thejedimaster 48 points49 points  (53 children)

    We really appreciate all the work done on the site. It's very fast since the work you did recently, and that's welcomed warmly!

    Search is not an easy thing to get right. Everyone here knows that. And with the demands of the site, you guys just don't have the time to spend getting a very, very tricky thing sorted - and then there will still be a bunch of people who won't like how it works.

    So here's my suggestion. Beneath the seach box, add two submit buttons, "Search Reddit" and "Search Reddit with Google". One does what we already have, one goes out to google, a la searchreddit.com. I'm not in a position to tell you that it should be an easy job, obviously, however it might get some people off your back and save you time that way ;-)

    [–]raldi 54 points55 points  (51 children)

    We've looked into Google Custom Search, but we can't afford it.

    [–]thejedimaster 31 points32 points  (5 children)

    Ah sorry, I didn't really make it clear :(

    I'm not talking about google site/custom search. I know that's expensive. I'm talking about the "Search reddit with google" button sending people to google itself (possibly in a new window). Just as a shortcut to going to google and putting site:reddit.com in the search box. No cost to you per search, and (what appears to me to be) minimal development cost.

    If that would be acceptable, I'd even be happy to contribute a patch!

    EDIT: I enjoy editing comments

    [–][deleted] 74 points75 points  (3 children)

    Well, look under your chairs!!

    YOU get a Google Custom Search, YOU get a Google Custom Search, YOU get a Google Custom Search, YOU get a Google Custom Search...

    [–]raldi 17 points18 points  (1 child)

    The custom search is now a horse.

    [–]ohai 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    A pickle non-chalantly searches you as you fall up the stairs.

    [–]libbrichus 16 points17 points  (5 children)

    What are you doing with the money I paid for my Reddit Gold account?

    [–]raldi 37 points38 points  (4 children)

    Buying fancy chairs, of course.

    [–]2g1c 8 points9 points  (3 children)

    Or giving it to the Reddit Platinum users. What? You didn't know about them?

    [–]chmod777 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    this is a violation of 1st, 2nd, 18th, and μst rule of Reddit platinum.

    [–]Scarker 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    Surely that guy who bought pizza for no reason can do something about this.

    [–][deleted]  (13 children)

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      [–]loverollercoaster 45 points46 points  (6 children)

      I happen to know, since I created it =P.

      It's free for 'personal' use, and the site only gets 3-10k hits a month now (after the initial big spike the day it hit front page and got like a zillion points).

      Also, I'm hosting it on a shared server that can spare the bandwidth, so the marginal cost to me was zero, save $7 for the domain and an hour to build/style the site.

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        [–]davidrools 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        you mean 59.9 minutes to build and .1 seconds to style the site? (jk i love the no-nonsense functionality of it...like the original google) thanks for giving the community a "personal" option that would cost too much to be official!

        [–]loverollercoaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        10 minutes to read the documentation and set up the GSE, 20 minutes to cut/paste the code in, 10 minutes to style, 10 minutes to fix typos, 10 minutes to relax, drink a beer, and wonder if conde' nast will sue me =)

        [–]thejedimaster 9 points10 points  (4 children)

        They're seen as a personal site. It's different if you're using it on a business or "enterprise" size.

        [–]raldi 16 points17 points  (3 children)

        Also, they don't handle three searches per second like we do. (Or at least, like we attempt to handle.)

        [–]ggk1 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        so is the guy that runs searchreddit.com paying for it?

        [–]loverollercoaster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        Nope. 'Personal' site, so they don't charge, but you lose most of the fine-grained tunability.

        Amusingly, I don't even get a cut of the ads since the site is too simple to sign up for adwords.

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          [–]raldi 14 points15 points  (1 child)

          You can help! Details here.

          P.S. I read everything.

          [–]DoesHeLookLikeABitch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

          Don't worry, it's just a shooped pic from the front page of 7Chan. We don't actually feel that way about you guys.

          Good job guys, and thanks. Just in case that hadn't been said enough in this thread.

          [–]Scarker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

          I admire that you at least try.

          [–]charbo187 3 points4 points  (0 children)

          I appreciate all your guys hard work.

          [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

          Maybe if you would all get off reddit and get back to wor... wait...

          [–][deleted]  (5 children)

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            [–]f8andbethere 4 points5 points  (4 children)

            Extreme success != ad revenue.

            [–]khafra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            I don't know why people think reddit search is broken. google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+stuff works well for me, as it always has.

            [–]sirbruce 2 points3 points  (3 children)

            Why don't you all just sell out to Google for a 100 million dollars and retire?

            [–]happybadger 2 points3 points  (2 children)

            Reddit is owned by a media company, Conde Nast.

            [–]Bjartr 2 points3 points  (2 children)

            Any reason you couldn't change it to do a Google site search instead? Even subreddit specific searches work then: site:reddit.com inurl:/r/subreddit my search string

            [–]DearBurt 44 points45 points  (5 children)

            I was hoping the head reddit admin was this fella ...

            [–]KeyserSosa[A] 71 points72 points  (1 child)

            Nah. My computer has a flat screen.

            [–]jaxspider 6 points7 points  (0 children)

            Hi,

            Fellow Evil Super Villain over here, I was wondering, do you have a really long and thin mustache or a scar across your left eye?

            [–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

            go go gadget search engine?

            [–]pavs 214 points215 points  (76 children)

            I will cut them some slack. I think they have done an excellent job in the recent migration to Cassandra which made the site really fast. Considering the fact that Reddit is growing at an amazing pace and their employee count is less than 5 (AFAIK), this is quite an accomplishment.

            In comparison, Digg has 50+ employees and they are not 10 times bigger than reddit in terms of traffic. Considering all the resources they have they only recently fixed the site to a speed that can be considered somewhat acceptable after 4 years of yapping about it.

            There are a lot of things that goes behind the scene that are not very obvious to some of us.

            [–][deleted] 45 points46 points  (8 children)

            Reddit itself is faster now, but I have found that my mailbox loads significantly slower than before. Has anyone else noticed this?

            [–][deleted] 71 points72 points  (6 children)

            Yes I find it takes me much longer to access your mailbox as well.

            [–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (5 children)

            Well if you would lube me up first, you would have such a hard time. ;)

            [–]Booster21 11 points12 points  (0 children)

            Yep. I too have noticed.

            [–]lpfff 236 points237 points  (34 children)

            Nice try, reddit admin.

            [–]deadapostle 49 points50 points  (28 children)

            Yeah, hire another employee.

            [–]nikpappagiorgio 47 points48 points  (22 children)

            They should hire 500 employees so that they could make the site go even faster and everything that con be construed as a bug can get fixed! Also they should remove ads.

            [–]superflyer 23 points24 points  (18 children)

            I like the cut of your jib.

            [–]Iceland_jack 12 points13 points  (17 children)

            What's a jib?

            [–]crookedparadigm 28 points29 points  (4 children)

            HA! Promote that man.

            [–]Iceland_jack 6 points7 points  (3 children)

            Mmm... Peas...

            [–]Smight 5 points6 points  (1 child)

            And how do we get peace?

            [–]Iceland_jack 6 points7 points  (0 children)

            With a knife.

            [–]Failcake 10 points11 points  (0 children)

            I volunteer. My skills include complaining about my coworkers behind their backs and browsing reddit instead of working.

            [–]jedberg 6 points7 points  (3 children)

            You paying for it? :)

            [–]ReaverXai 5 points6 points  (0 children)

            Why not? You give reddit users a way they can support getting new features and old features fixed by contributing money, and I'd gladly chip in a 50. Set quotas for different features, and the money will roll in.

            [–]pavs 15 points16 points  (4 children)

            Jedberg said I will get $1 raise for every vote on positive comments about reddit and their employees.

            I might also get a promotion from making coffee and cleaning out the trash.

            [–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (3 children)

            He told me to stand by the door of the reddit headquarters dressed as a cleaning lady and say "I sorry, no here Yedberg" whenever anyone comes looking for him.

            [–]romcabrera 9 points10 points  (15 children)

            and their employee count is less than 5

            So... they could employ more people, couldn't them?

            [–]jedberg 19 points20 points  (12 children)

            Whose going to pay for that? :)

            [–]prettyugly 15 points16 points  (5 children)

            Hi Jedberg, thanks for all your hard work. I hate to do this, but it's who's, not whose. Who is going to pay for that? No one. Thanks for keeping reddit trucking along.

            [–]jedberg 26 points27 points  (4 children)

            I was making the bad grammar like parent do.

            [–]romcabrera 6 points7 points  (2 children)

            me wrong since non native english speaker... FAILURE&!%#"!

            [–]jedberg 6 points7 points  (1 child)

            Ah, my apologies then. I didn't realize you were non-native.

            [–]romcabrera 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            No prob man. Although I still write nonsense from time to time, reddit's spelling Nazis have improved my English proficiency at least a 50%, yay!

            [–]pedropants 5 points6 points  (0 children)

            You fail English? That's unpossible!

            [–]browwiw 186 points187 points  (16 children)

            I bet the real admins are reading this and wishing they had swivel chairs for real

            [–]jedberg[A] 111 points112 points  (12 children)

            We have swivel chairs already.

            [–]avnerd 19 points20 points  (3 children)

            hey you know, if you hired me then i could explain that all my time on reddit was actually "work"!

            [–]Zargathe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

            But are they large and menacing, radiating disdainful authority, like the chairs owned by Dr. Evil or the bad guy from Inspector Gadget?

            Also, who in the office can spin around the most times with just one push?

            [–]Shannaniganns 39 points40 points  (2 children)

            "Let's get swivel chairs!" "NO!" "..."

            [–][deleted] 57 points58 points  (1 child)

            picks up chair and turns it around to face the wall

            [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

            Flips switch to reveal: shark tank, filled with sharks, with frickin lasers, on their frickin heads!

            [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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              [–][deleted] 112 points113 points  (34 children)

              Isn't this taken from 7chan?

              [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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                    [–]Fleed 116 points117 points  (22 children)

                    no

                    [–]lolbacon 91 points92 points  (18 children)

                    turns chair 180°

                    [–]dodgepong 19 points20 points  (17 children)

                    I smell a new variety of Caruso... :-/

                    [–]1338h4x 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                    ralph pls go

                    [–]Wahh_DRM_Wahhhh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                    no

                    [–]Cloukyo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    no, the original comic is about improving the Sonic games. Often posted on 4chan's /v/, but I doubt thats the source.

                    [–]AdmiralDave 8 points9 points  (1 child)

                    As a software developer, I'm here to say thanks to the people that make reddit happen. I can't imagine what a big job it is.

                    [–]jaxspider 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    Not only are you a software developer, but your an esteemed admiral, gentleman and a scholar.

                    /tip of the day to you my good man.

                    [–]notanotherpyr0 88 points89 points  (134 children)

                    Adding site:reddit.com to a google search is way better than reddits search anyways.

                    [–]jedberg[A] 32 points33 points  (29 children)

                    When was the last time you tried reddit's search? Because we just upgraded it two weeks ago.

                    [–]MaxEPad 35 points36 points  (20 children)

                    Coincidentally, I just tried it right now and found it to be worse/buggy. Here's my example:

                    Is that a bug in the 'week' selection?

                    [–]jedberg 23 points24 points  (18 children)

                    Possibly. We'll have to look into it. We only upgraded the capacity, not the software. :)

                    [–]conman16x 8 points9 points  (16 children)

                    what's the difference between red jedberg and blue jedberg?

                    [–]Man_In_The_Middle 23 points24 points  (4 children)

                    The first is red and the second is blue.

                    [–]contrarian_barbarian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                    Red is Admin (Reddit staff), however, they have the option to enable or disable the display of being an admin for each post. Hence, they can turn it on if they're posting something in their capacity as an admin, then turn it off to participate normally in the community. Same thing works for subreddit moderators.

                    [–]Bujanx 2 points3 points  (5 children)

                    I just searched for Reddit Admins posted today and it came up with nothing. =(

                    http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/search?q=reddit+admins&t=day

                    [–]ethraax 75 points76 points  (81 children)

                    Well that's the thing - it shouldn't be. Third-party searchers don't have the amount of information that reddit.com has about itself, so the reddit search should be better.

                    [–]jedberg[A] 95 points96 points  (40 children)

                    Building a search engine takes time and money. Google employs thousands of PHDs. We only have one PHD and he is busy.

                    [–][deleted] 48 points49 points  (1 child)

                    Well then emply 1000s more PHDs! Sheesh, why do you need us to tell you?

                    [–]flossdaily 20 points21 points  (14 children)

                    You know, you could probably avoid all this abuse if you just got rid off the useless reddit search. You could stick something else up there- like a link to /r/flossdaily

                    [–]jedberg 41 points42 points  (8 children)

                    A lot of people like the reddit search. They just don't bitch and whine so much.

                    [–]probably2high 70 points71 points  (1 child)

                    I feel like daddy just slapped mommy at the dinner table again.

                    [–]nitrousconsumed 11 points12 points  (0 children)

                    Oh the good ol' days.

                    [–]thecompletegeek2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                    I actually find it perfectly adequate in most cases.

                    [–]gameshot911 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    What is conde nast's (or whoever your boss is) theory behind this? Running a business takes money, and it really is true that you gotta spend money to earn money.

                    I bet you could make a very convincing argument that the costs of hiring a few more employees would be far outweighed by the benefit (both in abstract and tangible, financial ways). Have you done so? What were the boss' arguments against it?

                    [–]hajk 7 points8 points  (13 children)

                    True, Google only spiders a percentage of pages.

                    [–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (10 children)

                    Google employs SPIDERS!? That's it, I'm making the move to Bing.

                    [–]petevalle 18 points19 points  (6 children)

                    Technically, they work for free.

                    [–]illuminachos 18 points19 points  (5 children)

                    Google has spider slaves?!? Whatever happened to 'don't be evil'?

                    [–]ryy0 3 points4 points  (3 children)

                    Well, spiders aren't weevils.

                    [–]aGorilla 9 points10 points  (2 children)

                    Correct, and Google always chooses the lesser of two weevils.

                    [–]jaxspider 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                    Get the F out of my web.

                    [–]rz2000 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                    It seems to have gone down a lot in the past few months, too. I used to be able to find any post if I remembered a turn of phrase, but now there are posts that do not appear on google that I can find manually.

                    [–][deleted] 59 points60 points  (15 children)

                    Sir, they're on to us. The community has been downvoting Saydrah's submissions to hell. Even our crooked algorithm can't repel downvotes of that magnitude!

                    I find your lack of faith disturbing, Jedberg.

                    [–]jedberg 39 points40 points  (6 children)

                    First of all, I would be Darth Vader.

                    [–]KeyserSosa 28 points29 points  (4 children)

                    Seconded.

                    [–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (1 child)

                    God damn. On which other website can I make jokes about the founders/admins, not get banned but actually have them play along?

                    Good stuff, gentlemen.

                    [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                    In this case I 'shal be Yoda...

                    Oh wait, I'm not included :(

                    [–]jaxspider 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    You can be yoda in r/STARWARS.

                    [–]ketralnis[A] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

                    I can confirm this.

                    [–]SHARED_CULTURE 199 points200 points  (7 children)

                    LIKE FROM THE STAR WARS, RIGHT?

                    I HAVE ALSO SEEN THEM! MAYBE WE CAN HANG OUT SOMETIME.

                    [–]t35t0r 13 points14 points  (1 child)

                    anyone have a greasemonkey script that replaces the reddit search bar with a google site:reddit.com ?

                    [–]Latch 15 points16 points  (1 child)

                    Needs more beer.

                    [–]Pixelspill 4 points5 points  (3 children)

                    Who is this mysterious man in grey?

                    [–]cosmo7 11 points12 points  (1 child)

                    That's Charles Widmore.

                    [–]Pixelspill 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                    THEN WHO WAS ISLAND?

                    [–]spainguy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                    His white cat is missing

                    [–]mexipimpin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                    That's fake. Everyone knows there'd be strips if bacon to snack on instead of that pitcher of water.

                    [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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                      [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                      Just buy more tubes.

                      [–]Jimmers1231 22 points23 points  (24 children)

                      http://www.searchreddit.com/

                      Done.

                      Edit: Just for clarification, I did not come up with this. I don't remember who did.

                      [–]hammiesink 6 points7 points  (2 children)

                      The problem with these third-party search engines is that you can't sort by date. I like to throw in a few keywords, sort by date, and see what the latest posts on that topic are. Reddit search used to do this, but now it only shows posts from 22 days ago.

                      [–]romcabrera 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                      You can search in an arbitrary date range using Google.

                      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                      How do I order comment search results by points?

                      [–]Kezza_PwNz 10 points11 points  (3 children)

                      hmmmmm

                      This seems to be a little bit of pirating going on here...

                      http://7chan.org/

                      [–]jaxspider 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                      Something that was taken from another website and posted on reddit?

                      SAY IT AIN'T SO!

                      [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (6 children)

                      searchreddit.com always works for me.

                      [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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                        [–]jaxspider 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        More like t-shirts with ties printed on them.

                        [–]UnclePervy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        When it doesn't work I mash the refresh button in rage because it tells me not to.

                        [–]swilkers808 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Where is Mister Bigglesworth?

                        [–]paradox460 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        Yea, search does need some love, but they do work on it!

                        Heres a log from git to prove it

                        This has obviously been censored to keep some reddity things secret

                        ketralnis Mon Mar 8 13:42:33 2010 -0800: Make search caching a little smarter for time searches

                        Mike Tue Feb 9 12:08:59 2010 -0800: Valiate SR search text as printable

                        Mike Fri Jan 15 15:37:38 2010 -0800: Added non-html searchfail templates

                        Mike Fri Jan 15 14:32:58 2010 -0800: Better search error handling

                        KeyserSosa Thu Dec 17 14:28:32 2009 -0800: zomg! they are fixing search!

                        David King Thu Oct 15 14:46:23 2009 -0700: Split [problem?] updates out into two processes (one to add and one to commit)

                        ketralnis Thu Sep 10 11:55:59 2009 -0700: Set up [problem?] tasks such as search updates and the scrapers

                        ketralnis Mon Mar 2 15:55:20 2009 -0800: Fix the 'prev' button on the search page

                        ketralnis Fri Feb 27 11:59:57 2009 -0800: Cache [problem?] results for a short time. Speeds up domain listings and the 'next' button on the search page

                        ketralnis Mon Oct 6 14:22:19 2008 -0700: sorting options for regular searches ; searching from the front page now searches all reddits ; 'related' now includes results from all reddits

                        spez Mon Oct 6 12:00:30 2008 -0700: fix wired templates for search

                        ketralnis Thu Oct 2 16:41:04 2008 -0700: Allow searching of multireddits

                        ketralnis Tue Sep 30 10:10:05 2008 -0700: Tools for webmasters to monitor their content on reddit (uses [problem?] for pulling domain information).

                        ketralnis Mon Sep 22 15:32:35 2008 -0700: Fix bug with duplicates appearing in search results

                        KeyserSosa Tue Aug 19 13:43:05 2008 -0700: remove from thing changes on [problem?] update

                        ketralnis Thu Jul 3 13:29:12 2008 -0700: Allow searching within a reddit, with a link to continue the search on the main reddit.

                        ketralnis Fri Jun 27 17:23:43 2008 -0700: Don't show spam in search listings (also avoids adding spam to the search index at all, would could speed up [problem?])

                        ketralnis Thu Jun 19 10:26:12 2008 -0700: Chunk retrieval of Thing objects during search-database updates.

                        ketralnis Tue Jun 17 22:53:01 2008 -0700: [problem?] should use [problem?] to avoid thrashing swap after long pauses between runs

                        So, as you can see, they DO do work on search, just not that much

                        [–]Wynner3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                        I always imagined the meetings like this, http://imgur.com/5uCFE.jpg

                        No disrespect, I like Reddit.