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dabster291 ,
@dabster291@lemmy.zip avatar

paywalled link :(

hotpot8toe OP ,

I got you archive.ph/GS2I0

dabster291 ,
@dabster291@lemmy.zip avatar

yar har

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 ,

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.

bulwark ,

Not an ad, but Kagi is worth it. I’m ok with paying for search tho.

abcdqfr ,

Yes an ad, and a free one at that.

Karyoplasma ,

I’ll pass, but thanks for the reminder.

Nachorella ,

I’ve been using it for a while and agree. At least I know how they’re making money off of me.

twoface ,

Still seeing new Reddit posts on Kagi. Lets hope it stays this way.

grandma ,

Kagi pays Google for search results to supplement its index so it will keep reddit results as long as Google lets them

sag ,

I will pay for a server and then host SearX-NG rather than paying for a Good Service. Yep, I am wierd.

bulwark ,

I actually have an instance of searxng as well. I use it with my local chatGPT.

moon ,

Stop shilling for this scam of a service

The free alternatives are better

bulwark ,

Why do you say it’s a scam? I have not found a better alternative that produces decent search results. It’s not incentivized to send you to any particular websites, and I can personalize the results how I like.

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.

Bell ,

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.

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.

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.

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

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