There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Fedizen ,

Reddit really fucked themselves. Not as much as Elon fucked twitter but super close.

Also pretty sure DDG uses Bing

crawancon ,

whoever is left there deserves whatever happens. they really showed what they thought of the users over the years. culminating in app/api control.

…and Pepperidge Farm definitely remembers saydra.

cmnybo ,

It seems like it’s mostly just bots left there now.

dullbananas ,
@dullbananas@lemmy.ca avatar

Poople

hperrin ,

That’s fine. I don’t want Reddit results anyway.

filcuk ,

Unfortunately (for me, I guess), appending ‘reddit’ is still the way to go for many queries…

ShepherdPie ,

I’ve notice a huge decline in the reliability of using this now that every company on earth knows about this trick. You’ll just be served up posts with 0-3 comments and few upvotes when searching for product reviews or recommendations for example.

JackbyDev ,

The way the article is written you’ll still get existing information, just not new posts.

sag ,

Fuck You Reddit

TypicalHog ,

thats fucked

Death_Equity ,

I’m not saying we should have gulags, but if we did, I have some suggestions for permanent residency.

MudMan ,

Okay, hear me out, we should make a different service, like a network of computers where people can freely post information on some sort of page that other people can freely access without needing to log in to a million services. Maybe we could also add like little conversation boards to those to allow people to ask and answer questions, too.

Wild, I know, but I think there is some opportunity there.

nyan ,

The important part is not building it, but convincing the world, alas.

Karyoplasma ,

Yeah, not gonna happen. Fact is, Johnny Everyday doesn’t give a shit he’s flooded with ads, tracked on every click and is now forced into exclusivity deals because “somebody has to pay for this stuff and it ain’t me”. Likewise, the people giving the answers don’t care that they literally work for free for some megacorporations. It’s a rotten system and society is to blame.

We are not making a difference here either, not fooling myself into thinking that. I mainly use Lemmy because I can access it with any app I want while sitting on the loo.

clgoh ,

That would be perfect to train LLMs.

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Darn it

BurnSquirrel ,

Still couldn’t get me to use it, I use DDG which can switch between search engines and search sites very quickly with it’s ! syntax (Everyone goes on about privacy, but this is pretty much it’s best feature). Google results are consistently the worst for me if I’m hitting multiple search engines

lvxferre ,

Even back when I used Reddit, I had such a burning hate against Reddit results that I blacklisted them. So this is actually improving things for me, as I use DDG by default.

As such I hope that this decision becomes another nail in each of their (Google and Reddit’s) coffins.

SlippiHUD , (edited )
@SlippiHUD@lemmy.world avatar

I’m still getting full reddit results on DDG.

I can’t get anything newer than a month old.

hotpot8toe OP ,

Old indexed results are fine. But anything from last week is not showing up https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b219fed9-6e92-453e-a18f-59ab779440f1.png

Bookmeat ,

Good. They can both die in a fire.

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

I don’t want reddit links showing up in my searches. I’m fine with this.

Bishma , (edited )
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

DDG is a metasearch engine uses Google as a primary search sources, so this would indicate Google is not returning search data to its own APIs.

I feared AI would lead to this, so hopefully I’m jumping to conclusions. DDG, searxng, kagi, and most other alternative search engines rely on this API.

Never mind me. DDG doesn’t use google api after all.

hotpot8toe OP ,

Duckduckgo uses Bing for links.

from : duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/…/sources/

Bishma ,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Good to know. I thought they used aggregated google too.

thejml ,

Honestly the percentage of Reddit posts that Google returns which still actually retain their info is dropping substantially for me. Last few times it pulled up a Reddit post that should have my answer instead had either the question or the answers I needed deleted.

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