• 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

      I’ve always heard that reddit search was no good, I always used the joey for reddit app and the search seemed to work well. What was wrong with it on the browser?

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      1 year ago

      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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    1 year ago

    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.