Reddit rolls out new search improvements, including the ability to search comments

The ability to search comments, along with a few other search-related features, was announced today. Users don't have to click on several comments to find threads when looking for a particular conversation with a new comment search function. The search bar now has a new COMMENTS tab, which allows you to search for comments directly.

Users can search for comments in specific communities. Previously, if you wanted to find a thread about the best locations in London, you would have had to go through each post in the r/London community and look through the comments. You can see the different recommendations on the places that people have shared in comments.

One of the top requested features was comment search, and it was found by a survey that was conducted last year. Over five billion comments were scanned when the feature was first tested.

For the first time in sixteen years, everything on Reddit is now searchable, making it one of the first platforms with this capability.

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The redesign of the search results is based on user feedback. The platform has a new search design that puts more posts over other types of content. The results page has been simplified to make it easier for users to find what they are looking for. The number of unexpected results based on a searcher's intent is being reduced by Reddit.

The company is updating its platform to allow for less restrictive matching. The text of a post doesn't have to match the query to return relevant results. The change made to the way it displays results resulted in a 60 percent increase in results for queries that had previously not received results. Machine learning is being used to improve search results.

For example, if someone is searching for a topic that a lot of other people are searching for, we will automatically sort their results to prioritize the newest content to make sure the results are fresh.

The new features will be available today. The home feed's search bar can be accessed through the new comment search feature.

The announcement comes a few weeks after the site confirmed that it was exploring the idea of bringing more user-generated video content to its online discussion forums. Not much has been determined about this potential new video feature, which hasn't yet been launched into testing. The ability for people to add their own video to another person's video may be involved.