The Verge’s Jay Peters writes on the (temporary?) demise of one of the modern web’s weirdest information structures: the use of the term “reddit” when searching Google to fi…
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
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.
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Watching all “Top ten list insert…” Youtubers suddenly becoming very quiet.
Then Google sucks.
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.
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.
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.