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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Nahdahar@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Search results have gone to shit since everyone and their mothers started doing this SEO-optimization bullcrap. Google obviously has no reason to fix this situation because it makes them more money when people spend more time looking for something. site:reddit.com was one of the mitigators for this problem...

I'd gladly ditch search altogether and use ChatGPT + browsing support, but that's similarly dogshit because it's working off of SEO-optimized bullcrap results too.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

SEO should have been immediately dealt with years ago by having search engines permanently blacklist domains that pull that shit, no questions asked.