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[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 167 points 10 months ago

Literally the one reason I still use Reddit is because appending site:reddit.com gives me actual results. Reddits' built-in search results are utter dog shit and you cant find anything. They'd just be shooting themselves in the foot for blocking Google

[-] Nahdahar@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Search results have gone to shit since everyone and their mothers started doing this SEO-optimization bullcrap. Google obviously has no reason to fix this situation because it makes them more money when people spend more time looking for something. site:reddit.com was one of the mitigators for this problem...

I'd gladly ditch search altogether and use ChatGPT + browsing support, but that's similarly dogshit because it's working off of SEO-optimized bullcrap results too.

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

SEO should have been immediately dealt with years ago by having search engines permanently blacklist domains that pull that shit, no questions asked.

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