There’s a certain irony in Google only being useful to find Reddit links, but Reddit’s own search engine being so dogshit that you can’t find anything on the site unless you Google it

Good. People are supposed to be inconvenienced.

Then Google sucks.

Watching all “Top ten list insert…” Youtubers suddenly becoming very quiet.

Google has been a shitballoon for years now.

I’ve been trying Kagi lately. It’s not bad. You have to pay for it, but there are zero ads and their interests align with mine.

This is actually a testament to his bad Google Search has become.

Any search like “best toaster” brings you sponsored ads - with some kind of “our best toasters of 2023 and why #4 will surprise you!” dogshit clickbait.

But if you type “best toaster Reddit”, you get reviews and real experiences. And people voting on which ones they liked best.

Google makes some cool products. Gmail, Android, Pixel , Google Maps, Phones… but their core product, the search engine, is pretty much fucking useless these days.

Maybe one day, we’ll type “best toasters Lemmy”…

Hey everyone, since this is a major event, we’re trying to keep things tidy on our instance and centralize the reddit situation. Please see the Megathread on beehaw at: https://beehaw.org/post/550898

Literally hit this yesterday. Wanted to look how about battery issues on Steamdeck. I don’t run Google, but SearXNG, and a ton of the hits were for Reddit directly. Hopefully, though I doubt it, folks will eventually learn to stop giving our data, knowledge, privacy, etc to corporations.

Google’s core competency has shifted away from providing web search results to listing products some time ago. IMHO we can’t do anything but accept that fact and ditch Google as our main information lookup engine in favour of its competitors.

I’m curious how searching for things on lemmy will be in the future as the community grows. As more content is generated here, will we have to add all of the major lemmy instances as a site to search in Google queries?