Submitted 8 months ago by dating1999@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
I was doing research on a topic yesterday and Reddit threads 3 to 5 years showed up. So I checked them out. The comments randomly had words and phrases made to look like a hyperlink, but with a magnifying glass at the end, sprinkled around. I’ve never noticed it before yesterday, but honestly if I go there, I’m usually using old.reddit.
So I clicked a few, and they all took me to a Reddit search interface. The best part was they all had no results. So, working as expected.
I think I’ve seen this in YouTube comments as well.
Well click-through is getting worse and worse the more search engines just give answers themselves without losing you to the actual websites. This must also or even especially affect reddits ability to capitalize the user generated content through ads. Not sure if trying to enter a field that is currently killing itself by showing ai summaries instead of search results is a good move though…
Ah yes, the site controlled by Spez that’s blocked for people who are in the UK and are under 18 or don’t want to violate their privacy to verify their age.
Alternative title: “Reddit plans to make sh**load of dollars from data we’ve all left there for free”.
I painstakingly took a journey to hand delete each and every one of my posts and comments and then delete my user name. They got no free stuff outa me.
You’re absolutely correct! 💯
Reddit? The site with a search so bad, I had to use external search engines? Great idea.
Also, Reddit offers their own AI Q&A? The site that prominently poisend many Google AI summaries? What are they even smoking at this point?
Tip to any readers that don’t know, you can get search results from a specific website adding site: followed by the domain.
For example, if you want to limit the results to reddit.com and you want to search for fuck spez:
fuck spez site:reddit.com
This also works with subreddits. If you want to look for vince in the r/nba subreddit:
vince site:reddit.com/r/nba
I am pretty sure this works with subdomains too, I just can’t think of any examples off the top of my head that would be useful.
I tested this with Google, Duckduckgo, and Bing. It works for all of them.
“Hey if we introduce new features, that line will go up”.
In reality it’s trying to be something it’s not, and most ideas contribute to enshittification.
The site that prominently poisend many Google AI summaries
The site that made huge bank by selling API access to Google so Google could poison its own search results with shitty AI summaries.
Problem is they’ve been smoking whatever Google AI recommends for too long now
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So you want me to use a search fine by a company that is notorious for their sensorship? Go fuck all the way off.
dating1999@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Are you dumb? Am not the developer and it’s not a promotion. it’s just a news. And do it yourself.