Like it or not, years of insight, experience and expertise live in Reddit threads. But accessing some of them just got harder.
Like it or not, years of insight, experience and expertise live in Reddit threads. But accessing some of them just got harder.
Is that really a thing? When I search for anything I very, very rarely see a Reddit link in the results. The last time I remember was a question about i3wm.
I often specifically used to search eg.
site:reddit.com turboencabulator reviewor whatever, because on many topics just searching the entire web with Google will give you pages and pages of absolute garbage by sites that mainly exist to churn out (often stolen) low quality search keyword-laden content – especially on tech stuff – to generate ad viewsReddit frequently pops up when I look for answers to tech questions.
Yeah I’ve noticed this a few times already. Cached pages have worked so far for me.
It’s very useful compared to the usual SEO dreck that Google throws up as the top search results.
I think they might mean folks who are using google to search reddit, for example, the search term “migrating to lemmy reddit”. I know I append “reddit” to a lot of my google searches and now with the blackout, those search results will only take you to a private page for the subreddit.
I was trying to lookup stuff about mechanical keyboards on ddg earlier today, and several results on the first page were reddit threads. So it can definitely happen with some other hobbies/topics I imagine.
Reddit pops up all the time when I’m searching for questions I have about DIY projects around my house, as inevitably someone else has asked the exact same question in the DIY or HomeImprovement subreddits. Same for technology questions.