One thing Reddit dominates on is search results. I’m looking things up and seeing so many links to reddit, which I guess is going to help keep that place relevant (unless those subreddits stay dark).
I wondered how Lemmy and this fed thingy stuff all works for that? With more posts can we expect to see people arriving through search results?
One thing to keep in mind is that Google currently penalizes links that don’t end in the common top domains like “.com”, “.org” and similar. So something like lemmy.world, if indexed, will rank lower than a site ending in .com with the same keyword density.
Google went from being the most important website on the internet to being more and more useless, it’s amazing seeing such a massive company go downhill. But they have so much money that they’ll be able to stay big forever from capital alone.
What do you use as a search engine instead of Google? I feel like I’ve tried everything, but always end up back at Google search.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for about a year now, the results still aren’t as good as google, but not having to look at ads and the better privacy outweigh that for me. It really has improved a lot over the last few years.
Startpage, SwissCows, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, SearX
brave ?
Been using Ecosia and so far its been very good. I did not have a need to use Google once.
Ecosia uses the Bing algorithm by the way, but with tree planting and better privacy. I think DuckDuckGo does the same. So if you’ve tried either one of does, there’s no need to also try Bing.
Yandex is good if you’re sailing the high seas.
SearXNG
Been using DuckDuckGo for years now. I only go to Google if I’m not finding what I need, which isn’t that often. And to do that I just pop in
!gbefore my search in DDG and it pushes me to google. Can do the same for other engines like!bfor Bing.Let Google be irrelevant. It kind of already is there in the absence of Reddit.
The nerds always blaze a trail when boring old entrenched media ruins good things. In this case the thing being ruined is a search engine that makes the critical mistake of assuming a traditionally “prestigious” .com equates value. Fuck the old establishment, it’s time to ditch decrepit big tech and remake the internet the way it was meant to be. It’s time to reinvent how we share and discover content.
Embracing the Fediverse now does pretty much feel like “taking back the Internet”. It reminds me of the early days and that’s an amazing thing. Tired of the over commercialized hellscape the Internet has become over the past decade and a half.
Fine with me. We will have a lot of users and become bigger then reddit and Google will still treat us like second class citizens. oh well for Google they are missing out