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[–] [email protected] 152 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Good, hope they get banned in the EU so people will switch to competitors

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I could see the EU backing down a few years ago, but these days they have watered down any actual advantage in search by filling their results with ads and low quality content. Not that I use Reddit any more, but a good Reddit search engine would probably be better for a lot of use cases.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Then you got people like Musk using their websites as foreign influence platforms to restore Nazis into power so I'd imagine there's an appetite for not being so reliant on the increasingly belligerent US media oligarchy, which itself is the victim of Fox News and Murdoch.

Plus everything is already enshittified anyway so easy to create better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Luckily google bought exclusive rights to query Reddit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Except reddit is all ai-generated bullshit now. Unless you search before 2024, searching reddit is literally useless, and that's all going to be out of date so quickly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reddit search engine? Hell nah I want more federated communities. Reddit has a contract with google anyways that blocks out foreign web crawlers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's what I mean. Their own native search that only searches Reddit. I'm not saying it would be great, just better than Google for many uses cases.

This isn't me talking up Reddit—I haven't been back in over a year. This is me trashing Google.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DuckDuckGo: Use us because Google is so evil they were banned in Europe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They use bing tho. I personally like Qwant as they fall under GDPR and are european. Also they are working on building an independent search index.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I would love that. I still use google products, because I was too lazy to switch, a ban would give me the incentive to move to another platform