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Reddit is launching a new AI-powered search tool called Reddit Answers to help you more easily find information on the platform. The tool, similar to other AI search products, responds to queries by generating well-formatted responses and showing links to its sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But the distinction with Reddit Answers is that it sources things directly from Reddit, which means it could be a way to skip Google and get information directly from the source. Reddit has already been cracking down<\/a> on where you can search for things from Reddit, and Google is the only major search engine<\/a> that shows recent Reddit results. But Reddit probably would prefer if you did searches right on its platform, and Reddit Answers might prove to be a good way to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Reddit Answers will initially roll out to \u201ca limited number of users\u201d in the US and in English, and it will be available on the web (not on Old Reddit) and iOS. (\u201cWe\u2019re working on Android as we speak,\u201d Serkan Piantino, Reddit\u2019s VP of product, said in an interview.) Reddit plans to bring the tool to more languages and locations \u201cin the future,\u201d according to a blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Reddit gave me access to a test version of Reddit Answers, and while I haven\u2019t been able to mess around with it very much, I\u2019ve liked what I\u2019ve seen. There\u2019s a big box to ask a query, but the initial Reddit Answers page also floats a bunch of suggested searches you can click on, like \u201cfavorite Nintendo character of all time,\u201d \u201cbest mystery novels of 2025,\u201d and \u201ctips for flying with a baby for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I clicked that last one, and the tool quickly pulled together a list and some bulleted suggestions with hyperlinks on the text and<\/em> an arrow to click to see the source of the information. When you click either, a sidebar pops up showing the exact post where the information comes from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A Reddit site search for the same query on Google, on the other hand, just gave me a standard long list of links to evaluate and click through. On its face, Google\u2019s version, which doesn\u2019t have the summaries or bullet points, isn\u2019t as immediately informative as Reddit Answers. But personally, I\u2019m pretty skeptical of AI summaries anyway \u2014 they can make some pretty bad errors!<\/a> \u2014 so for me, the Google results are still perfectly fine as a way to explore some potentially useful posts on Reddit. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Reddit Answers can also pick up on things happening on Reddit within minutes, according to spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt, so there\u2019s also a chance responses to your queries will have timely results. I haven\u2019t had much luck with that; on Friday, for example, I asked \u201cwho won yesterday\u2019s NFL game,\u201d and instead of pulling up answers about Thursday\u2019s Packers-Lions game, it included details on the Eagles-Ravens game that happened on December 1st.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n That might have just been a quirk of the product not being fully ready yet. In my testing, though, Reddit Answers has been much more useful as a jumping off point to dig into a more general topic on Reddit rather than an up-to-the-minute search tool. And while Reddit Answers is useful, I\u2019m not sure yet if it\u2019s good enough for me to change my habits around using Google to search for things on Reddit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n