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.

  • ezmack
    2·
    3 years ago

    Yeah pretty much the only way I use reddit these days. Google is terrible if you can’t find your answer on the first page. I’d still rather get an answer from a niche forum over reddit, but if I can’t find a forum I just slap “site:reddit.com” on there.

    Problem is reddit is also bots (if your using the articles dead internet definition). Just blatantly people selling their shit or fake reviews so reddit is kinda losing its usefulness in that respect too. Probably at the same pace as the rest of the internet though. It’s harder and harder to find reviews of things that aren’t sponsored

    • morrowindOP
      3·
      3 years ago

      And google is the best of the lot, on other search engines the second page is often all the same sites as the first. as is the third.

      • Zerush
        4·
        3 years ago

        Yes, but the problem of Google is the privacy and the filter bubble effect. Because of this I use Whoogle , the public instance I use https://whoogle.sdf.org) which use the google engine, but don’t give data to Google and don’t have the filter bubble, no logs, no ads, no tracking. For relevant results, the best is Andi (https://andisearch.com), it use AI to search the results which you give him in something like a chat. It’s still very new and in alpha, but works fine. Strict privacy focused, no ads, no tracking, no logging and offers also reader view in pages which soport it. Made by Austrian IT specialists.