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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 550 points 2 years ago (30 children)

Uhhhhh....who thought that was going to be a bright idea? Google is probably the single biggest traffic draw for Reddit.

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  • [–] 352 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Especially since reddit search itself has always been laughably broken.

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  • [–] 168 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    That's what I thought this was about halfway through the headline.

    "They've made it this long without a functional search."

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I'm pretty sure the admin response to lack of search was "just use Google."

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I also recall that, but it’s just another instance of Reddit contradicting Reddit.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Or more realistically: Reddit from 10 years ago contradicting Reddit from today.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For what its worth the reddit search function seemed to have functioned much better a decade ago.

    The amount of spam and just downright completely irrelevant results that showed up regularly in searches there the last few years has been ridiculous. I think it changed around the time they took away being able to see how many upvotws and downvotes a comment had totally, which I do still think is a real shame they took that away.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Yeah Reddit search was fine on the original old Reddit UI, it was around the time the native app released that it really started to shit itself and not return any results and just say try again later

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  • [–] 91 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Did Elon secretly buy Reddit?

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  • [–] 104 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Funny thing, spez expressed in interviews that he liked Leon's philosophy behind a lot of decision over Twitter.

    So there's a lot of truth to that

    Edit: I'm gonna tear my autocorrect a new one. It's "Elon Musk" and I hope that's clear.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    Not to mention the only way to go back and find something on their site. Their in house search bar is a useless piece of junk. Back when I would use reddit, I would open up google if I had to find something in reddit.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's literally been life for me for so long when I'm looking up quite a bit of different things. "Blah blah reddit"

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    They seem to intend to make the content on Reddit more disposable, which is a feat unto itself. Technical forum usage will precipitously drop if no one can find it. Or they just endlessly repost it? What an odd decision.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    If they cut Google, I will literally never go to Reddit again. I probably hit a couple pages a week from Google search, and that's it, but that will be zero pages if they are truly this dumb.

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  • [+] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)
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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Tbh it probably is. I don't use Reddit much anymore for discussion or news or memes, but when I need the answer to a problem or an opinion on a product or service from actual people instead of an overly long review listicle, Reddit search results are still very useful.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    But it's not even their data. They lose nothing from AI models.

    It's ALL user-generated content. What harm comes to reddit the corporation by allowing AI to train off the user's activity?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Spez is going full Musk. It's actually insane. Like... Holy shit.

    I'm praying for Reddit's downfall here, because if companies are able to get away with this shit the internet is going to get oh so much worse in the near future.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    But at the same time, it sucks. I still use Reddit for episode discussions of shows I watch (which don't exist here on Lemmy, especially for older shows). I don't want those to go away without some replacement. Even if Lemmy did suddenly start getting lots of active episode discussions, it's not really possible to backfill them for older shows and the site is still too small and hard to index, it seems.

    Incidentally, google is the only way I access those, since I no longer browse Reddit normally.

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