Google Search Is Dying | DKB
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Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.

Essentially saying that due to seo spam and commercialization, Google is now useless for search and more and more people do site:reddit.com.

I think it’s a little extreme but agree generally.

  • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
    2·
    3 years ago

    Related note: if I search site:lemmy.ml it doesn’t appear to give content from instances it’s federated with. Lemmy might be difficult to search.

  • Olive@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I ususally add “reddit” to my search terms when I’m looking for recommendations. At least I know I’m getting crowd sourced opinions and not a stupid ranked list where every company paid for their product to be on it…

      • Olive@lemmy.ml
        0·
        3 years ago

        You can get X to do Y for Z. Statement works for literally every thing in life.

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
          1·
          3 years ago

          Since people already know Amazon reviews are doctored, the next logical step would probably be to pay them to post on reddit. I don’t know how your XYZ argument goes against that.

          You can also use a subject S, verb V and object O to build English sentences, which works for figuratively any thing in life.

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      Neeva has this handy feature that lets you prioritize or deprioritze sites in all your searches, I’ve just added Reddit to the list.

      • Olive@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        Nah, I was right there with you. It’s so much better to get recommendations from a hobby/enthusiast subreddit than click bait articles.

        • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
          11·
          3 years ago

          Then probably we were ahead of the curve :D

          Google started becoming garbage long ago. People who act like Google becoming garbage was signified by reverse image search crippling and the whole SEO pay game, probably have no clue about searching for info on page 12 and skimming obscure blogs for information. Yes, I do that much research. And anyone who did what I did, can relate well.

          I shifted on other search engines and websites to find my information and knew there was a vacuum for better source for information hunting.

  • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    Interesting, when I search something reddit has almost always the worst or no answer. Even the spammy tech blogs steal better content.

    • Evan@lemmy.ml
      0·
      3 years ago

      Whaaaat!!! Reddit is always better then any other source, aside from the arch wiki and Wikipedia, both of which are… Guess what… Crowd sourced!

      • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        It’s mostly no replies, deleted comments (why tf do people do that?!), people guessing (which isn’t that bad, but why don’t they disclose it?) or just pure bullshitting.

        There’s so much good content out their, but search engines seem to actively punish sites that don’t have tracking, bad usability and megabytes of useless javascript.

    • Evan@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      Looks great but the 20-30$ a month is absurd. I’m looking more in the 3-4$ ball park.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I stay with Andisearch, Whoogle, Metager and DDG (the only proprietary search engine in my collection). Supposing Reddit search is worse than Google, respect privacy, it shares data with Google, M$, and with this with TowerData (keylogging) and others. Reddit is worse than FB, because of this I use Lemmy or Raddle.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        I think it’s generally a good sign for a searcher’s privacy, if you look at the adressbar and the search url that shows up and also shows up like that in the history.

        For example, if I search with Andi, Whoogle and other search engines that respect privacy, regardless of what I search, only https://searchengine/search appears in the adressbar and in the history, in all others apears https://searchengine/search/object of the search which also later apears in the history.

        Searching Lemmy With Brave search in the adressbar and history https://search.brave.com/search?q=lemmy

        Same search with Whoogle https://whoogle.sdf.org/search

        In Andi only apears the url of the Andisearch https://andisearch.com

        With Metager apart of the item, apear the config code https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=**lemmy**&submit-query=&focus=web

        All these respect privacy and only stores the history locally, but its better when the search item don’t apear in the history, because of this, Whhogle, Andi, Startpage and SearX are those which I use most, Metager, DDG and others only in occasions to contrast some information.