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mrvictory1 ,

I searched for a specific post: No result from DDG, correct result from google. I will try again in a day. duckduckgo.com/?q="advise+for+bringing+my+son+int…www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="advise for bringin…

hotpot8toe OP ,

There are easier ways to check. Here is how i did ithttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7838cbfa-c251-4351-90c3-5afb9fe43749.png (no way there hasn’t been a trump reddit post in a week)

thesmokingman ,

I have not actually been able to use any Reddit results for awhile. It might be that I force old[.]reddit[.]com and Reddit has finally cracked down on that?

Freefall ,

Oh cool! My searching won’t be spammed with Reddit now!

5oap10116 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/adcb0b2d-0d83-4881-aa82-fa74937e0ec0.png

Kowowow ,

They should include reddit in the list of search engines that don’t work well with reddit

cmrn ,

Every time I click a Reddit link now it’s just “download the app to verify your age” regardless of what it is

Wolf314159 ,

I feel your pain.

I edit the URL to remove the first part of the URL and replace it with “old.reddit.com”. That still seems to work, last I checked, but I fully expect it to be killed any day now.

PraiseTheSoup ,

There’s a firefox extension “old reddit redirect” that’ll do this for you. Been using it for years. But yeah any day now I expect old reddit to be offline.

AFC1886VCC ,

Fuck Reddit

vxx ,

Another nail.

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.

Kecessa ,

I was looking for Bluetooth speakers recommendations and it’s the first time I really noticed “generic bot replies” like “I’ve got this great product to recommend, not only is it good but it offers great sound quality as well! The product is [link to Amazon page]”

Gotta start searching using “before:” to get quality results…

5oap10116 ,

Am I bbbrrrregnant?

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

If we consider all possible outcomes on a galaxy scale, then No.

villainy ,

Also my collection of hobbies seems to match up well with the people who nuked their post history after the API-ocalypse. Even when I get good search results I click through and… so many deleted comments…

Mnemnosyne ,

It irritates me that so many forums and media sites allow you to edit your posts at will. There’s one site I go to that I like very much - it has a 5 minute edit window, and after that, your post can no longer be edited. You can’t change what you said, pretend you never said things, etc, once you say something it remains. It would be nice if more sites were like that. Or at least, if you edit/delete something, for there to be an option to check the history to see what it used to be, so if you try to delete some comment you made people can still check it. Whether it’s informational, or it’s because you’re trying to hide something you said that you realize was actually super shitty and people are getting angry at you for it, I prefer things to stick.

werefreeatlast ,

Lemmy Will be king soon…is there a Lemmy search engine?

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.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit truly is making things awful.

They’re no longer interested in driving traffic to the site, is my guess. They’re far more interested in devising new ways to extract rents from the existing participant base. So rather than pay Google to prioritize their site, or incentivize Google to link to their site with internal content hygenie techniques, now they’re getting paid by Google to exclusively serve up content.

It’s useless.

The sheer volume of junk content, the amount of content that just shows up as deleted or archived, and the rate at which I’m served “Reddit” as a source of data when there’s no conceivable reason why it should be near the top of my search list is very frustrating.

5oap10116 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/941a7b15-cf66-407a-b8a6-d0c0f6b98f94.png

Imgonnatrythis ,

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

Reminder that Kagi searches Lemmy which is great.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Kagi

Ah, yes. The “Fuck you, Pay me” search engine.

capital ,

A service that gasp costs money???

It surfaces better results for me than others so I’m paying for a service that I gain benefit from. Feel free not to…

Wolfram ,

It’s a paid service that in return respects privacy, and has results as good as Google’s.

Google doesn’t say “Fuck you, Pay me” because you are the product.

Imgonnatrythis ,

I like where I stand in that model. I’ve tried the alternatives and have found genuine value in what I’m paying for. Lemmy loves turning its nose up at Kagi because “money” but they’ve gone out of their way to index the fediverse where most have ignored us. I’m an anonymous Kagi user I pay through a third party using a crypto account and I couldn’t be happier - they now have a lower tiered payment plan that is affordable for me.

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.

capital ,

You’d probably feel differently if it were your service. Should you be able to control who scrapes your sites or should that be all or nothing?

For the record, I fucking hate what the internet is becoming. I naively believed that even if shit got cordoned off into the walled gardens that are mobile phone apps, the web would remain as open as it was. This is a terrible sign of things to come.

reddig33 ,

No, I wouldn’t feel differently. In fact letting search engines scrape and point to your content is what leads people to your site. It’s free advertising. If you’re going to let one search engine in, you should let them all in. If you want to be public, be public. Otherwise put up a login firewall and go private.

capital ,

It’s not just search engines. Lots of people on Mastodon were using robots.txt to block ChatGPT (and any other LLM company they knew of) from scraping their sites/blogs.

I disagree, to a point. I want to be able to control my services to the greatest extent possible, including picking who scrapes me.

On the other hand, orgs as large as Google doing this poses a real threat to how the internet works right now which I hate.

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.

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