Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
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Crazy that google paid for rights after reddit's gone to shit. 3 years ago it would have been great, but these days I can't remember the last time I clicked on a reddit link for an answer.
It's because the Google algo is broken, and a good percentage of Internet users search "thing you want to know reddit" for everything now.
Would be neat if lemmy could form similar niche communities where people talk about their hobbies and scientific interests.
pog poop balls lemmy
hit search
It's a little unnerving how many Hexbear posts/users show up using Yandex.
Yandex is legitimately great, especially image searching, simply breaks pintrest and the like so you can actually find high res copies of what youre looking for
And it's only like that because of the CIA. Around 2016 google started prioritizing MSM
I'm starting to wonder where people even get information anymore. Are libraries making a comeback?
Discord, and I'm not happy about it.
Wtf how do you search discord?
You search for the topic you're interested in, find out there's a discord about it, then open their discord, then check all their pins and try discord's search function.
As I said, I'm not happy about it.
Public discord servers should obviously not be a thing. It can be nice to have a place for people who are just getting started to casually be able to talk with more experienced people in some domain, I've definitely found it useful, but that's something that can easily be achieved with a web forum. So public Discord servers just come with all the downsides of a forum: no expectation of privacy, power tripping moderators, bad search function, etc; then with none of the upsides: searchable by an external search engine, decentralized, familiar UI, configurability. And that's without getting into all the issues with Discord as a company.
I'm starting to wonder where people even get information anymore.
Facebook, Twitter, and other cesspools.
i guess we can all start using out individual imaginations again
Facebook, Twitter, and other cesspools.
i guess we can all start using out individual imaginations again
You're both correct!
The search engine was the imaginations we made along the way
Youtube is a primary source now. A lot of people take information from some [insert cracker specialist on random topic here] specialy about social/economic topics but realy everything.
And to be fair there is also some actualy decent and informative channels too which makes it even worse because its not like everything on the internet/YT is false or wrong its just you picking idiot grifters as your source.