Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal

magnetosphere , 7 hours ago

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

Bishma , 8 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

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 , 8 hours ago

Duckduckgo uses Bing for links.

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

Bishma , 7 hours ago

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

thejml , 8 hours ago

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.

Bell , 8 hours ago

The reddit results I see on Google or DDG are usually blocked so no browser can access them. I hate to see all that content disappear but on the other hand I really don’t want to give Reddit any clicks.

sunzu , 8 hours ago

It is their internet peasants... Say thank you daddy let's you use it at all, shitlord.

Slaves are getting brazen now... Regime might get ideas about how to fix that from our greatest ally. They call it mowing the lawn. They are doing it it now! And regime likes it.

_haha_oh_wow_ , 8 hours ago

Weird, most of the results I get from Google’s search are from Quora (and they fucking suck). Google as a search engine has been going downhill for a while now. Reddit has becomes an increasingly spammy shithole full of corporate and political astroturfing too.

SteveFromMySpace , 8 hours ago

Enshittification continues but now it’s trying to enshittify competitors indirectly instead of altering their own products.