Google should just buy Reddit so they can shut them down six months later.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Months? You mean weeks.
It would be cheaper for google to just buy reddit, remove the adds and open the api's again.
Having relevent search results is priceless.
Reddit.com appears on KilledByGoogle.com next year.
remove the adds
lol, this is google we're talking about
Knowing google they would buy it, release a big roadmap of plans for the website and then shut it down the next day.
While we are fixing things Google, can we also not have the first 20 results be YouTube videos that are 30 minutes long, when the answer I want is typically a sentence or two....?
im adding "-youtube" to searches for a long time. The amount of Clickbaitvideos, no matter what you are searching for, is just crazy.
I still think it’s absolutely insane that Google just willingly runs ads to so many illegitimate and deliberately harmful sites too.
If you search for any software and click one of the first few links (the ads), you’ll almost always end up on a scam site. What a useful search engine…
I downloaded a virus in high school computer lab. I was looking to download Chrome, and Google pushed a scam Chrome link to the top. I still have no idea how or why it happened.
Whats bothering me the most about it is that Reddit is still a valuable source of information for so many things, can't get around a boss fight in a certain older videogame? Yep, there are about 10 threads about it on reddit from years ago.
The amount information on there is big enough that often times many of the top useful search results are in reddit, I hope Lemmy can fill the gap, at least partially but I'm aware that it could years and that's only if the fediverse picks up well enough.
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I've started using DDG as defacto since the last 3 months. Use Google search only for sports updates because they've good widgets for those.
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Google search has been pretty weak for awhile now. I/O spoke a lot of big talk about bring generative AI into search, but from my part of the world it still seems the same.
Ai isn't going to fix the first page being all ads, that's a business decision.
If they wanted to return actual content they could do that without AI.
that's not even close to the issue, though – Google Search fell because of SEO pushing irrelevant auto-generated garbage towards the top.
I think it's both - the SEO fight as well as the explosion of ads on Page 1. Throw in a dash of average-user search optimization (vs a flatter term-based search) and you've got Googles downfall in a nutshell.
I wonder about the odds that Google would buy reddit. Not saying it's a good thing, but it could be a strategic play for them.
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Startpage still seem to give me good search results despite using Google index itself. I guess a lack filter bubble have its own benefits.