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Fedizen ,

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

Also pretty sure DDG uses Bing

daniskarma ,

To be fair, Reddit is no longer that good of a source for answers in the later years.

Quality drop in comments is insane. Sometimes it looks like Quora.

dullbananas ,
@dullbananas@lemmy.ca avatar

Poople

JackbyDev ,

If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week.

That’s absolutely insane… Reddit truly is making things awful. The “just add reddit” or “just add site:reddit.com” has been trash for a while because they bombard you with the “pwease use the app” and not showing more than like three comments at a time. It’s useless.

Imgonnatrythis ,

Meh, fuck em. The tighter they make their circle the less useful it is.

Reminder that Kagi searches Lemmy which is great.

sag ,

Fuck You Reddit

reddig33 ,

I’m not understanding what stops a search engine from scraping a publicly accessible website. ?

Eril ,

robots.txt, I guess? Yes, you can just ignore it, but you shouldn’t, if you develop a responsible web scraper.

reddig33 ,

Doesn’t seem legal that a robots.txt could pick and choose who scrapes. Seems like legally it would have to be all or nothing. Here’s hoping one of the search engines ignores it and makes it a legal case.

Eril ,

Actually currently it contains this:


<span style="color:#323232;">User-agent: *
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Disallow: /
</span>

Well, that actually is a blanket ban for everyone, so something else must be at play here.

starman ,
@starman@programming.dev avatar

merj.com/…/investigating-reddits-robots-txt-cloak…

Reddit is serving different file to google

russjr08 ,

We believe in the open internet, but we do not believe in the misuse of public content.

That’s real rich, coming from Reddit.

hotpot8toe OP ,

Also, rate limiting. A publicly accessible website doesn’t mean that it will allow scrapers to read millions of pages each week. They can easily identify and block scrapers because of the pattern of their activity. I don’t know if Reddit has rate-limiting, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they implement one.

dabster291 ,
@dabster291@lemmy.zip avatar

paywalled link :(

hotpot8toe OP ,

I got you archive.ph/GS2I0

TypicalHog ,

thats fucked

Death_Equity ,

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

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

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.

lvxferre ,
@lvxferre@mander.xyz avatar

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.

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