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.

  • Olive@lemmy.ml
    1·
    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…

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
      0·
      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
        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.

      • 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.