• atp2112@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s a certain irony in Google only being useful to find Reddit links, but Reddit’s own search engine being so dogshit that you can’t find anything on the site unless you Google it

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      1 year ago

      Adding “Reddit” to your Google search only helped because content from Reddit wasn’t linkfarm blogspam.

      Frankly that was changing anyway. Reddit was going downhill well before the api changes.

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    1 year ago

    Google has been a shitballoon for years now.

    I’ve been trying Kagi lately. It’s not bad. You have to pay for it, but there are zero ads and their interests align with mine.

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      Indeed. One may argue that Reddit is actually a valuable source of information but to some extent this is the problem of Google promoting links to Reddit in its search. Reddit is simply a SEO-darling which uses some dirty hacks to appear more relevant to search engines and no one seems to address this issue.

  • !ozoned@lemmy.world@beehaw.org
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    Literally hit this yesterday. Wanted to look how about battery issues on Steamdeck. I don’t run Google, but SearXNG, and a ton of the hits were for Reddit directly. Hopefully, though I doubt it, folks will eventually learn to stop giving our data, knowledge, privacy, etc to corporations.