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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google has not been shy about grabbing content from other sites and showing it directly on their search page.

I imagine part of their frustration is that the technical issue of caching and showing relevant reddit/stackexchange/y!answers in their search results is a solved problem, but they're being held back by pesky legal and business constraints, and therefore are forced to remain vulnerable to external events.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hahahahhahahahah

That's pathetically laughable for google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It feels absolutely nutty that it's gone from

  • Reddit search sucks, I literally use google to search stuff in Reddit
  • Things I've never seen: Page 2 of Google

to

  • I literally need to add reddit when I do a google search
  • I cannot find what I want after page 5

Google used to be synonymous with reliable results and Reddit as the awkward website you barely spoke about. Now you need to use reddit to find proper results because the slow bleeding that is SEO has screwed over Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is a good change as it may expand to more sites. I'm one of those users that used reddit in query often looking for opinions or reviews. We should get Lemmy on the list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've been using qwant for a couple years now without any issue. It mainly uses Bing as a backend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No shit lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I discovered the kagi search engine last week and it's so much better. No ads. I can move favored sites up or pin them in the search results.

Edit: Found out they only allow 100 searches for free, after that it's a paid monthly subscription. So ignore my previous advice...

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