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Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I hit this today. Was playing God of War and couldn't find out how to get back to a certain collectible. Couldn't find any resources that had my problem exceot reddit posts that were now private. I was pulling my hair out in frustration knowing the answer was so close

Archive.org had the questions archived, but before there were answers

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    • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I realized this yesterday when dealing with a problem in Linux. My first attempt was to search for a solution by adding site:reddit.com to my search query... Pure muscle memory!

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    • [โ€“] 0 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Ran into this today myself (on DuckDuckGo).

    I wonder if the wayback machine might be useful? Not sure how they index pages or if there would be a cache of any random page from smaller subreddits.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    I ran into the same problem with DuckDuckGo today while troubleshooting an issue and found out that DDG doesn't cache pages themselves due to cost however they have a command that redirect you to the Google cached page: !cache

    eg. reddit.com/r/subreddit !cache

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    • [โ€“] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah it's good and bad, Reddit gets a lot of traffic through Google. Google gets a lot of results through Reddit that arnt always right though

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