As an example: I was doing a search for the best sesame substitute today. Everything that came up was things like, “11 Best Sesame Substitutes,” and I know for a fact that just about everything they suggested tastes nothing like sesame. Just another site trying to get hits. So I added reddit.com into my search parameters and immediately got some decent answers.

I really hate that I have to do that to get anything useful, but there is a ridiculous amount of useful information on Reddit. I hope the fediverse gets to this point as well one day.

Anway, just needed to vent. Lemmy on.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    85·
    1 year ago

    It’s positively maddening. Especially since that Spez has turned Reddit into a walled garden experience now, I no longer want to rely on Reddit for answers. Google is just a mess of garbage blogs full of link rotted ‘answers’.

    • Burp@kbin.social
      58·
      1 year ago

      All the AI generated websites are driving me insane. They just repeat the same thing over and over again with a bunch of useless text.

    • Jamesbong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I no longer used reddit daily. But I still use it (without an account) mainly for research. Reddit no longer exists. It’s just a databse of answers like stack overflow to me.

      Interestingly I even relay even less and less on searching reddit through google. I use bing ai and bardai since their dataset upadates daily.

      • folkrav@lemmy.world
        51·
        1 year ago

        I don’t have access to Bard (Canada) and I don’t use Bing nor Edge, but ChatGPT is usually pretty good at telling me what to look for or giving me an answer that’s close to the real thing or has the right keywords. However, it’s really often just wrong enough that people replacing a search engine with it and use it for information is kind of worrying…