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[–] Aeri 66 points 2 months ago (4 children)

oh no, Reddit is like, the only way to have google still be useful.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

Funnily enough, google is also the only way to have Reddit be useful.

Their own search function has been nothing but garbage.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's the catch, Google made a deal with Reddit and remains the only search engine allowed to access its data for indexing. It cuts off every other search engine

[–] Vorticity 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tell me that there is an anti trust suit over this.

[–] GroupNebula563 26 points 2 months ago

There's a suit over google in general so this may well be part of it

[–] TriflingToad 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

really? ddg will show me reddit links, did they have to make a webscraper or something

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

There's a cutoff date, anything indexed before the robots.txt was changed stays in the index

[–] riodoro1 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We fucked the internet. It’s proprietary now.

[–] GroupNebula563 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

cat5-o-nine-tails

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good news! Google paid up and still has access I'm pretty sure.

[–] GroupNebula563 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's bad news, that means the internet is dying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, the /s was sort of implied.

[–] GroupNebula563 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, sorry. I have trouble with that sometimes :P