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
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.
Then Google sucks.
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.
Good. People are supposed to be inconvenienced.
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Convenient protests are easily ignored. The fact that this one even impacts Google search results shows how much Reddit’s content matters.
Watching all “Top ten list insert…” Youtubers suddenly becoming very quiet.
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.
Hey everyone, since this is a major event, we’re trying to keep things tidy on our instance and centralize the reddit situation. Please see the Megathread on beehaw at: https://beehaw.org/post/550898
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.
