at least we have competitions
This isn’t going to hurt Google’s antitrust cases at all… Noooo sir.
Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit
Submitted 3 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.webpronews.com/google-and-brave-the-only-search-engines-able-to-index-reddit/
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ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
moe90@feddit.nl 3 months ago
the thing is this is not monopoly and it much more like duopoly between Google and brave search. So, it is hard.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 months ago
Brave search…? You’re joking right…?
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Well, it only gives a bigger reason for other search engines to index the competition.
callmepk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Kagi can still search Reddit content tho (blocked part of url because I have Kagi rewrite url to redirect to my private Redlib instance)
I think this is because they use some sources from Google and Brave?
30p87@feddit.org 3 months ago
And I’m doing the opposite over here lol1000028263
Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Man reddit has a treasure trove of answers to shit though, pinterest though that is a must.
adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 3 months ago
blocked part of url because I have Kagi rewrite url to redirect to my private Redlib instance
I had no idea this was a thing. Thats going straight on my self-host todo list.
moe90@feddit.nl 3 months ago
not everyone want to pay though
callmepk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, I know, Reddit is just being asshole for another time as we all know
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
ad_on_is@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I have the assumption that kagi’s results from reddit have gotten sparse lately. but maybe it’s just me
retro@infosec.pub 3 months ago
I setup a Lens so that if my query contains a single letter ‘r’', only Reddit results will be returned.
msage@programming.dev 3 months ago
Fine by me - I don’t use or like any of them, AND they will make sure I won’t see them elsewhere? Jackpot
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Brave is chromium dressed nicely.
No competition here.
point5a@programming.dev 3 months ago
Is google still a thing!?
ramble81@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You just sound stuck up when you say that. Like “is windows still a thing? I didn’t know because I use Linux. Don’t you?”
Of course Google is still a thing, by far it’s still the largest search engine in use on the planet, so most people won’t notice it. If anything, this hurts all the not-Google users. Can you imagine if different sites started signing exclusivity deals with different search engines?
point5a@programming.dev 3 months ago
The last time I used Google, I searched for timer app, the result was blue light filter! No timer in the first 6 pages!
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s your mom’s default search engine so I use it from time to time
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
…why is this the first comment on an 8 month old account? Weird
point5a@programming.dev 3 months ago
Time flies! It was like yesterday! 😅
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s a good day to be a metasearch engine user. No need to worry right now about one company essentially having a monopoly on indexing a certain site.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
TBF thats like 7/8ths of search engines used by most consumers.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
TBF that’s a textbook monopoly.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Yeah absolutely, tear that company to a million pieces, but it would practically be a shorter list of common search engines that it can’t be used on. Between Google, Opera, and Bing most other search engines are just built upon the former.
hahattpro@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I though it is only Google, now Brave join ? What about Bing ? Do they chip in soon ?
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.
!reddit search termIt still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing’s results. It’s that simple.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
yes. Also, !r is reddit also.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Even better. Thanks, been a while since I’ve looked up specific ddg bangs.
fpslem@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This has historically worked because Bing (from which DDG draws results) previously indexed Reddit. What indications do we have that it will work after this change? As I read the articles, I thought it wouldn’t work going forward.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Bangs don’t actually search w/ Duckduckgo, they just redirect your search to whatever search provided is configured for that bang. In this case, it just goes to reddit.com and uses its search function. They’re really handy when you definitely want results from a given service and don’t want to type out “site:service.com” or whatever.