Google Search Is Dying | DKB
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Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.

Essentially saying that due to seo spam and commercialization, Google is now useless for search and more and more people do site:reddit.com.

I think it’s a little extreme but agree generally.

  • morrowindOP
    7·
    3 years ago

    Related note: if I search site:lemmy.ml it doesn’t appear to give content from instances it’s federated with. Lemmy might be difficult to search.

    • SeerLite
      3·
      3 years ago

      We might need a meta-search engine specific for ActivityPub/fedi

      • morrowindOP
        1·
        3 years ago

        Not sure what you mean by meta-search, but definitely need adjustments to work well for the fediverse.

        • SeerLite
          1·
          3 years ago

          My bad, I worded it wrong. I meant a meta “search engine”. As in, we’re gonna need a search engine that goes beyond a common one and scrapes fedi from within. Not sure if meta is the right word haha