It’s amazing how bad it is now with SEO-optimisation. Most people (myself included) put “reddit” into the search query to clean things up in the hopes that we’ll get something other than an ad-serve/affiliate-sales-linked website, but this really opens you up to being exposed to astro-turfing.
Edit: Really interested to hear if other people have better ideas than this.
If you’re actually interested in results from Reddit, you should put in site:reddit.com. Otherwise, you’re just encouraging/rewarding sites that use that term for their SEO spam.
Google juices reddit posts now so no need to throw that shit in anymore. There were recent news articles about it coming from the antitrust case against the company. Now many folks use “-reddit” for how bad reddit is these days clogging up search.
Hadn’t thought of that. Unfortunately generally I’m looking at current products/news more often than not.
Makes me worried about the whole dead internet theory if I’m being honest.
It’s amazing how bad it is now with SEO-optimisation. Most people (myself included) put “reddit” into the search query to clean things up in the hopes that we’ll get something other than an ad-serve/affiliate-sales-linked website, but this really opens you up to being exposed to astro-turfing.
Edit: Really interested to hear if other people have better ideas than this.
If you’re actually interested in results from Reddit, you should put in
site:reddit.com. Otherwise, you’re just encouraging/rewarding sites that use that term for their SEO spam.Sure, I do ignore those sites but this is a good way of doing it.
Google juices reddit posts now so no need to throw that shit in anymore. There were recent news articles about it coming from the antitrust case against the company. Now many folks use “-reddit” for how bad reddit is these days clogging up search.
Try using before:2023 if you don’t need the absolute most recent info
Hadn’t thought of that. Unfortunately generally I’m looking at current products/news more often than not. Makes me worried about the whole dead internet theory if I’m being honest.