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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 82 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Jesus fucking christ. Why are they hell bent on destroying themselves.

The fact that Reddit is available from a search engine is one of the main reasons for its popularity imo.

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

    Exactly, Google search itself is so enshittified you pretty much have to tag "reddit" at the end of every query to find any solution to a problem. Even my 55yr boss knows this and he's clueless about anything social media related.

    Having tons of Google traffic to any company in would be a godsend, yet Reddit wants to ban it. What a fucking joke.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    i never thought i would say this, but at this point bing seems to be a better search engine than google

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

    I can not recommend duckduckgo enough. Been using it for a while now and it's so nice to not have the top 5 or so results just be ads, and the rest irrelevant.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    And bangs! They make it so that ddg is the only sensible choice for default search.

    If I need to search on google for some reason, I can just append !g. If I want to look for Youtube videos, I append !yt. I can even search for grocery prices directly with !appie.

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

    I've been looking for a better search engine lately. DDG results seem to be nearly the same as Bing results. I.e. still not that great, though has better privacy policies. IDK why search engines don't de-rank listicles, extremely long recipe pages, pages with tons of ads, etc. Major search engines are so bad now, it seems like it would be relatively easy for a startup to overtake them. I guess there's a large barrier of entry due to the infrastructure needed to crawl the entire internet and store indexes.

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