Essentially saying that due to seo spam and commercialization, Google is now useless for search and more and more people do site:reddit.com.

I think it’s a little extreme but agree generally.

  • Olive
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    12 years ago

    I ususally add “reddit” to my search terms when I’m looking for recommendations. At least I know I’m getting crowd sourced opinions and not a stupid ranked list where every company paid for their product to be on it…

    • @morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      Neeva has this handy feature that lets you prioritize or deprioritize sites in all your searches, I’ve just added Reddit to the list.

    • Helix 🧬
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      02 years ago

      Are you sure? You can pay people to post fake reviews on reddit easily, too.

      • Olive
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        02 years ago

        Nah, I was right there with you. It’s so much better to get recommendations from a hobby/enthusiast subreddit than click bait articles.

        • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlM
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          02 years ago

          Then probably we were ahead of the curve :D

          Google started becoming garbage long ago. People who act like Google becoming garbage was signified by reverse image search crippling and the whole SEO pay game, probably have no clue about searching for info on page 12 and skimming obscure blogs for information. Yes, I do that much research. And anyone who did what I did, can relate well.

          I shifted on other search engines and websites to find my information and knew there was a vacuum for better source for information hunting.