• @[email protected]
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    531 year ago

    They must’ve noticed an uptick in Google traffic. I’ve stopped using reddit for fun and only as a means to find solutions through search engine.

    Starting to wish yahoo answers would come back.

    • Billiam
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      291 year ago

      Google has started adding a Reddit search filter to some searches.

      • @kaitco
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        301 year ago

        That’s because it’s so impossible to find anything I’d use on a normal Google search that you have to add “Reddit” to your search to find anything relevant.

        Of course, post-API debacle, a fair amount of the responses you’d have needed are deleted, but ya know…

      • @[email protected]OP
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        21 year ago

        No way, is this real? Seems like it would be a huge news story. Has Google ever had a specific search filter for a third-party website?

        • Billiam
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          21 year ago

          It’s absolutely real. “Adding Reddit to Google searches to actually find useful information” isn’t a meme, it’s what people are really doing. And since Google has (allegedly) killed search operators, it’s the only way to cut through the uselessness that Google search has become. Although, I do have a sneaking suspicion it’s actually added by whatever AI they have on their backend that generates “useful” filters, not something Google itself directly added.

    • Chozo
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      111 year ago

      Starting to wish yahoo answers would come back.

      If only we knew how good we had it back then.

    • Lvxferre
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      01 year ago

      Starting to wish yahoo answers would come back.

      Fuck, I miss trolling in Yahoo answers.

        • Lvxferre
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          21 year ago

          Those were probably genuine, clueless people being clueless. For trolling you don’t ask “am I pregnant?”, you ask “I’m pregnant and [my brother | my dog | I don’t know who] is the father, what should I do?”.