DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    74·
    2 months ago

    If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week.

    That’s absolutely insane… Reddit truly is making things awful. The “just add reddit” or “just add site:reddit.com” has been trash for a while because they bombard you with the “pwease use the app” and not showing more than like three comments at a time. It’s useless.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      Reddit truly is making things awful.

      They’re no longer interested in driving traffic to the site, is my guess. They’re far more interested in devising new ways to extract rents from the existing participant base. So rather than pay Google to prioritize their site, or incentivize Google to link to their site with internal content hygenie techniques, now they’re getting paid by Google to exclusively serve up content.

      It’s useless.

      The sheer volume of junk content, the amount of content that just shows up as deleted or archived, and the rate at which I’m served “Reddit” as a source of data when there’s no conceivable reason why it should be near the top of my search list is very frustrating.

      • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I don’t get why Google would agree to pay for anything. Google can survive without Reddit, but Reddit would be hurt without Google and would eventually be forced to give in. Where’s that corporate greed when you need it?

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I don’t get why Google would agree to pay for anything.

          Exclusivity, both for boosting better access to internal reddit data and for harvesting that data into their AI models, presumably.

          • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            Oh yeah, maybe it was a package deal and they only really cared about the training data.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I mean, it’s unlikely anything of value has been posted to reddit in the last week anyway. Or like the last 2 years.

    • namingthingsiseasy@programming.devEnglish
      32·
      2 months ago

      The “just add reddit” or “just add site:reddit.com” has been trash for a while

      Has that ever been true? I always assumed it was some sort of shadow marketing campaign to get people to look at reddit more. Pretending that one website is the only reliable source of answers on the internet is incredibly audacious, it always seemed very farfetched to suggest that

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        It’s not that it was the “only” source, it’s just that it would fit out a bunch of garbage articles like “top 10 best ways to blah blah blah”

    • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      “pwease use the app”

      the ublock origin annoyances list can filter this out at least, i strongly recommend it

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        This must be something extra to enable, how do I do it?

        Ahh, in the settings for the extension. I just enabled all lists. Is there any real reason not to?