‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google - eviltoast
  • Nahdahar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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
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      1 year ago

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