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Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

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Re: Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

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Post by vesinisa »

2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #4

It's really disturbing just how bad Google search has become. For so many cases Google actually is only useful as a search interface for Reddit, StackOverflow, and other sites that accumulate (and actually garbage collect) knowledge. Without such a qualifier Google will just give you absolute SEO trash results for many types of searches.

It would certainly be an interesting next turn of events if Google made an offer to buy out Reddit - just for the user-generated content and to stop the site from self-destructing, i.e. the golden goose offing itself.

It's unlikely given current capital interest rates, but at this point this drama has pretty much crossed the borders of plausible fiction anyway.

Re: Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

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Post by fraXis »

jraph wrote: post #5

Maybe this is a good time to mention the Web Archives browser extension [1] that offers links to various cache / archive providers for any page you visit from a toolbar button. There are many such extensions, this is the one I've been using occasionally. Simple but very useful. I haven't tried since the beginning of the Reddit strike though, I don't use Google and I only very occasionally run into Reddit pages. I kno…

I never knew about this. Thanks.

Here is the Chrome extension link:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-archives/hklig...

And the link for Microsoft Edge:

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/web-archiv...

Re: Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

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Post by [deleted] »

jraph wrote: post #5

Maybe this is a good time to mention the Web Archives browser extension [1] that offers links to various cache / archive providers for any page you visit from a toolbar button. There are many such extensions, this is the one I've been using occasionally. Simple but very useful. I haven't tried since the beginning of the Reddit strike though, I don't use Google and I only very occasionally run into Reddit pages. I kno…

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Re: Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

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Post by jjoonathan »

napsterbr wrote: post #15
2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #4

It's really disturbing just how bad Google search has become. For so many cases Google actually is only useful as a search interface for Reddit, StackOverflow, and other sites that accumulate (and actually garbage collect) knowledge. Without such a qualifier Google will just give you absolute SEO trash results for many types of searches.

> It's really disturbing just how bad Google search has become I just want to be (yet another person) to echo this sentiment. For the first time in my life I had to resort to Bing (!) instead. The lower quality of results must make business sense somehow, I suppose...

> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

Re: Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

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Post by emodendroket »

jraph wrote: post #5

Maybe this is a good time to mention the Web Archives browser extension [1] that offers links to various cache / archive providers for any page you visit from a toolbar button. There are many such extensions, this is the one I've been using occasionally. Simple but very useful. I haven't tried since the beginning of the Reddit strike though, I don't use Google and I only very occasionally run into Reddit pages. I kno…

You might also have like with “unddit” for Reddit specifically.

Re: Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

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Post by Zetice »

IvyMike wrote: post #6

Google should probably just buy Reddit and run it at a loss. This may not be good for us the users, and might end up killing Reddit in the long run, but it's better for both Google and Reddit than the current situation.

Reddit's valuation is insane right now, they got in before the "correction" so it's at some absurd multiple.

Anyone trying to buy Reddit would need to basically lowball the hell out of them and make the case that an IPO will only be worse (which may or may not be true).

Re: Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout

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Post by olalonde »

kylecazar wrote: post #24

I haven't noticed this, but have seen the complaints. I don't tend to see many reddit links in my search results, and haven't noticed a change since that blackout. Perhaps just the nature of my searches?

Same. It would be nice if someone would share some example queries. I use Google quite a bit but rarely end up on Reddit, nor do I feel Google search quality has been going down over time.
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