Reddit Adds Comment Searching To Help Improve Search Results

Today, Reddit is updating its search feature to index comments. The Verge reports: For the first time, users will have an option to pull results from replies to posts, making it less of a hassle to find something specific outside of general Reddit posts, communities, and people. The rollout is Reddit's latest change to help users encounter content from outside their usual subreddits following the addition of a discovery tab on its mobile app in January. Reddit says that in a user survey last year, the ability to search comments was one of the top results. During "limited initial testing," Reddit claimed 26,000 users went on to use the feature against five billion comments. Right now, the new ability is available globally for users searching on Reddit's desktop website, but not via its apps. The company "is also updating its search experience to help users find more relevant search results written by real people," adds The Verge. "For example, when searching for something, instead of showing search results with that exact wording, related results will pop up instead to make the search less restrictive."

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