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Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
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Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
#73I dont think I have ever got a quality search result by appending reddit.
Cant for the life of me figure out how HN users find useful results there.
chatgpt has improved search for me by orders of magnitude. Especially since google has started to border on useless.
Bur searching reddit? Meh. Not for technical stuff at least.
Niche high quality subs may point me in the right direction. Like r/ponds for example. Wonderful little sub.
r/doggroomers is absolute shit mostly full of shaming dog owner pics and toxic comments.
r/programming was great 8 years ago. Now I doubt any human over 18 posts there.
Honestly if reddit never comes back again I think the interwebs have gained a level in quality as it is just a toxic echo chamber for young people who think they are some form of superiour liberals.
Good riddance.
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#74So, genuine question, how much of Reddit is archived? If there’s a lot on the internet archive, say, could that now be bundled up similar to how the Usenet stuff is on Google groups?
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Neither Google cache nor archive.org/etc. covers all pages. I've been running into that problem a fair few times
How do you get the cache?
Three dots next to the search result in Google, than in the "About this result" window there is a little "Cached" link right at the bottom. That "Cached" link is however missing for a lot of results.
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I've been doing a bit of this as well. Unfortunately, it seems that Google hides the 'Cached' link on mobile devices (at least in Safari) unless you 'request' the desktop version of the search results page. I don't know why they do this; it's extremely obnoxious. But then again, this kind of obtuse nonsense is par for the course these days.
Browser dev and minimalism go together
Another annoying example, Chrome on desktop shows you download speed, on android they don't.
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#77Are reddit posts not archived or cached anywhere?
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#78This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.
Unless you happen to already know of a specialized forum for a topic, it increasingly feels like Reddit and Wikipedia are the only parts of the internet that are still valuable; everything else is content farms or SEO spam. Even then I'm finding that Wikipedia's quality has dropped dramatically in recent years. As they become more zealous about only including "encyclopedic information", I'm increasingly finding pages…
everything else is content farms or SEO spam.
No! The rest of the content is still there, loads of it. Google simple has stopped caring, no it is not "too hard", they just don't care enough.
Case in point, Google even aids in crappy results, by aliasing your search terms, preventing precision, putting monetization above all else.
Google sucks. SEO/spam is not worse, Google is, they know it, they do not care, because so far it has no affected profit negatively.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you happen to already know of a specialized forum for a topic, it increasingly feels like Reddit and Wikipedia are the only parts of the internet that are still valuable; everything else is content farms or SEO spam. Even then I'm finding that Wikipedia's quality has dropped dramatically in recent years. As they become more zealous about only including "encyclopedic information", I'm increasingly finding pages…
everything else is content farms or SEO spam. No! The rest of the content is still there, loads of it. Google simple has stopped caring, no it is not "too hard", they just don't care enough. Case in point, Google even aids in crappy results, by aliasing your search terms, preventing precision, putting monetization above all else. Google sucks . SEO/spam is not worse, Google is, they know it, they do not care, because…
Good point. Do you find that other search engines like Kagi resolve the issue?
Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
#80I dont think I have ever got a quality search result by appending reddit. Cant for the life of me figure out how HN users find useful results there. chatgpt has improved search for me by orders of magnitude. Especially since google has started to border on useless. Bur searching reddit? Meh. Not for technical stuff at least. Niche high quality subs may point me in the right direction. Like r/ponds for example. Wonder…
I challenge you to provide me a better resource than reddit for finding reliable product reviews and discussions for just about anything you can buy.