• Smacks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Literally the one reason I still use Reddit is because appending site:reddit.com gives me actual results. Reddits’ built-in search results are utter dog shit and you cant find anything. They’d just be shooting themselves in the foot for blocking Google

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      1 year ago

      Literally the only reason why I still bump into Reddit even when I’m not trying to.

      Here’s an example from real life. When I searched for “ipados brave yutube ads adblock”, I found some Reddit posts discussing the issue.

      Spoiler: Ditch brave and switch to something else.

      BTW, Reddit is currently in the “hold my beer” sort of state when it comes to shooting itself in the foot.

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      Search results have gone to shit since everyone and their mothers started doing this SEO-optimization bullcrap. Google obviously has no reason to fix this situation because it makes them more money when people spend more time looking for something. site:reddit.com was one of the mitigators for this problem…

      I’d gladly ditch search altogether and use ChatGPT + browsing support, but that’s similarly dogshit because it’s working off of SEO-optimized bullcrap results too.

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        1 year ago

        SEO should have been immediately dealt with years ago by having search engines permanently blacklist domains that pull that shit, no questions asked.