- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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.
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.
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.
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?
Exclusivity, both for boosting better access to internal reddit data and for harvesting that data into their AI models, presumably.
Oh yeah, maybe it was a package deal and they only really cared about the training data.