That’s why I use “site:reddit.com” instead of just adding “reddit”
Don’t worry, I’m sure google will disable that soon in the same way they disable all the other search syntax that used to make searching a simple and easy task
“Search engine” is not equivalent to “Google”.
Cool, pedant. Addend “on google” to my comment then if you need, since that’s clearly the context we’re talking about here. I’m aware there are other search engines, but context should have made what I was talking about pretty fucking obvious.
(Not OP) Point taken, but in that case the solution should also be obvious. Just use a different one that does provide that. If the product sucks, hit the bricks. DDG and Kagi are looking for market share, they’d love to have you.
I do use alternatives, but I mention Google because it’s what’s relevant to the conversation at hand.
Advanced search techniques should be a class in 6th grade
Or better yet, try my filter… It’s “-site:reddit.com”!
Here’s a tip:
site:reddit.comMakes me sad to think that this will soon be about as useful as “site:facebook.com” with the way Reddit is going.
Yeah maybe giving corpo trash exclusivity over the sum total of human knowledge wasnt the best idea?
Or do this:
-site:reddit.com
Do you think it will ever be possible to do that for all the Lemmy instances?
Kagi.com has a lens for the fediverse. A lens is basically a scope within which performing the search.
Nah. The best option we have imo is a service that indexes everything on one site so traditional search engines can find it. That requires someone to build it, and AFAIK that’s hasn’t happened.
It already works pretty well if you just add Lemmy to the search.
Lemmy’s built-in search barely works as it is, so unless some drastic changes happen it’s resounding no.
This is how we found anything on reddit for most of its useful life. Its search was always garbage so we relied on Google to come up with usable results.
It’s miles better than reddit’s search has ever been.
Okay but reddit is also becoming inaccessible; how to migrate this data?
I look forward to Google being forced to down rank any sites with “reddit” in the H1.
Google being forced to
What an odd phrase
I’ve spent a lot of time working in SEO.
Search results like this can drive people away from Google and toward other resources. Google likes money, and this is why they usually try to combat spammers that are gaming the system.
It’s a cat and mouse game that has been happening for years. Organic search spammers find a new thing, then Google tweaks the algorithm to downrank what they’re exploiting.
then Google tweaks the algorithm
Well you don’t have to read Cory’s newest column to understand that Google hasn’t been doing that, because they don’t have to. They do not care, at least not yet, because they have arguably become too big to care.
Well google does a horrible job at combating it
No doubt. That said, they do update the algo to combat this stuff. If you work in SEO you’re likely quite aware of what tricks currently work and no longer work.
There’s something very Darwinian, very artificial selection about this.
I fucking hate seo abusers. I have to use a locally hosted ai for a lot of my “googling” because modern day search results are fucking worthless now.
Is the AI open source? Curious what you’re using and what your experiences with it are.
llamacpp. Remember to modify the launch script to use multiple cores. Go to hugging face io and look for GGUF compatible models.
site:reddit.com
