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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 167 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    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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  • [+] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    ...was the search actually misspelled that badly?

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

    Missing one letter is a severe misspelling?

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

    And that’s on a good day. Can you imagine how my spelling looks like in the morning before having coffee and/or when I’m standing in a train during the rush hour? It’s so far from human readable, that I’m inclined to call it a type of encryption.

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

    Oh wow ... You think one letter is the only problem with that?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Let's run this through one word at a time

    ipados - name of a product, trademarked, spelled correctly

    brave - normal English word, spelled correctly

    yutube - missing the letter "o"

    ads - normal English word, spelled correctly

    adblock - name of a product, spelled correctly. Not an extension available for the browser in question as far as I can tell, but that's the kind of thing you find out when you google it

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

    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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