• Debs@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The hardest part for me was realizing how shit Google search is without appending reddit.

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      1 year ago

      months back, I was trying to do something on a Switch, and could not figure it out. the official Nintendo resources were useless, so of course I found a post on reddit. sure enough, a few comments down was the hyper-specific answer I was looking for.

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      1 year ago

      It’s crazy, I never noticed before. I wanted to search something about a game yesterday and the first five hits were Reddit threads, the others were clickbait. And I didn’t even append “reddit” as a search term. It was a simple search.

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        1 year ago

        There must be other terms. I don’t know them but there should be other ways of searching organic content outside of reddit.

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          You can append -reddit to your search and it hides all non reddit resultsy idk if that was what you meant

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            1 year ago

            no, i know that, what i meant was, specifically, to search for organic content, which is the value of Reddit, that it is content made by users for users, not by SEO clickbait corporations filling the internet with mediocre content. My idea is that there should be other keywords that are not site:reddit.com that also provide a certain increase in quality results for your questions.

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              1 year ago

              Yeah I kind of overread/forgot about the word organic in your comment but i agree, thanks for clearing that up

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        I wonder if that is a Google thing (or if you use another provider) I use duck duck go (been doing it for many many years now) and almost never see any reddit threads if I don’t search for them. For example if I search for something specific for a game do I get a lot of the games wiki pages and articals from ign or some private persons blog or even videos on youtube. Just for fun did I now search for “reddit api change” there is only one link to reddit and it is almost at the end of the first page with only two other links bellow it 😂

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      Completely agree. We need to start building that stuff and contributing more in the fediverse so that can’t be a thing in the future