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Both reddit and google will become useless if they do this.
sad and amazing how true this is.
to find anything worthwhile in Google search you often needed to add site:reddit.com
to find anything at all on Reddit you needed Google
well, glad I don’t go to those websites anymore…
People say this all the time, but I search prolifically and have literally never had to do this to get a relevant result top 4.
What are you guys doing, using full sentences with puffery like you’re talking to the Enterprise or something?
Have you never searched for a problem where you wanted to hear actual people talk about the solution? If I don’t suffix it with “Reddit” I just get SEO spam/AI generated articles which may or may not actually be useful. Usually I want to know what real people think about the issue.
Same… Although maybe I’m just searching niche problems.
100% agree. While I think it might be easier to get to a relevant result more quickly in certain cases, I’ve never needed to suffix reddit to my searches to find what I need. Often reddit hits crop up but not because I looked for them specifically.
to find anything at all on Reddit you needed Google
Huh? I just used reddits own search bar. Worked just fine for me.
Edit: Man some of you are bitter at the fact that not everyone had issues using Reddits own search. Lmao
You would be a shining needle in a field of hay.
I guess. I had no idea so many people hated Reddits searchbar.
When you know a post exists, and you type its exact title into reddits search, and it gives you inrelated bullshit so you need to go to google who hand you the exact post you knew existed, it annoys you.
When you do that every time you try reddits search function, you start to really hate it.
Ah, sorry that was happening to you.
I’ve found that Reddit’s search generally works when searching within a specific subreddit, but otherwise it’s mostly useless.
But isn’t that how most people use google to search Reddit anyways? They specify the sub in their searches.
But anyways, I was always able to find what I was looking for even when doing a website-wide general search or when picking the sub. shrug
oh man this is hilarious.
you’re kidding right? did they fix it right before everyone left in disgust and no one even noticed?
Not kidding. Never had issues with it in the many years I used it. =)
every single time I’ve tried reddit’s search it delivered results that were somehow worse than not searching at all.
Idk I always found the result sorting to be, I mean, obscenely bad. I would find better more accurate results searching in Google “r/whateversub” followed by whatever it was I was trying to find.
You could pick what sub you wanted to find your info directly from Reddits own search bar as well though. Or choose to search the entire website.
I doubt reddit makes much revenue from traffic generated by search queries. I suspect People endlessly scrolling their feed are more likely to click ads
Reddit needs google a lot more than Google needs reddit
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Reddit’s search was broken when I joined in 2009 and it never improved. The only thing that made Reddit searchable was Google.
Reddit somehow missed that the value of the was in the comments, not the post. Post titles are easily searchable but searching the comments using Reddit’s own search is still difficult. It mystifies me how badly the people running Reddit misunderstand the most basic things about it.
Reddit search functionality is friggin useless.
Wild, cause it’s worked just fine for me for 10+ years.
I’m pretty sure reddit’s search is basically fake, a stopgap “todo” placeholder that never got done. It always seemed like they wanted us to forget that Reddit is even supposed to be searchable, but now we know that search really is against their mission somehow. Even from the perspective of greed it never made sense to me.
Sweet. I hope so. I’m tired of feeling tempted when they come up in queries.
Fuck you, Spez! Do it, you spineless chud!
Reddit is a study in inertia. It steadily declines in quality and the users just continue to hang around and eat their shit. Reddit will be around for a long time, and stubbornly get worse every quarter. It’s pathetic.
Rome didn’t start putting up walls like Hadrian’s until the end of the empire. The Rome of Pax Romana had no limits.
FYI
Hadrian’s wall still stands… Although in most places it’s easy to cross 😂
I mean I get your point but Hadrian’s reign specifically (as well as his predecessor’s and successor’s) is considered to be the high point of the Empire
As much as I hate Reddit, adding it to the end of nearly every google search is the only way you can get decent answers anymore, at least without having to scroll through several ad-riddled junk sites
This is gonna hurt both
it’s absolutely hilarious how badly they’ve lost whatever plot there was
They have already made their content almost unusable in search results. I’ve started adding Reddit to my exclusions when searching.
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Reddit’s CEO is copying Twitter’s CEO mindset again I see.
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Imagine if they did it lmao. The backlash would be so fun to watch.
It’s all about training language models, isn’t it?
According to the article, yes. I think demanding some kind of compensation from LLM companies is reasonable but this feels like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Half the traffic to reddit is because someone is looking for a recommendation or solution. Reddit’s internal search function is about as useful as it’s video player or it’s app.
So many times I saw a meme and I wanted to show it to someone else only to be sure it was lost forever to that useless excuse for a search.
its
I now hear the a Monty Python song in my head
Half of the unique visitors maybe, the traffic of the people on Google visit 1 post. The people with an account who browse it at work see 500
Even when I had a reddit account, I would use Google to search, because reddit search feature is crap. The Google search would often result in me exploring and/or subscribing to a new community. So, for me, Google searches increased my reddit interactions.
This, for me, is a good example of why the assessments that I’ve seen lately about how much Lemmy/Kbin may or may not have caught on, and the assessments about how Reddit may or may not have been impacted by the migration, are way, way too early and kind of nonsensical to make right now.
It is important to understand that Reddit is set on becoming a public company, and for a public company, not taking any avenue that could provide additional revenue is essentially only one step below setting that money on fire. If there’s a chance that something will make the company more efficient, you are kinda obligated to do it. This will constantly (and increasingly) lead to policies like this, which sacrifice user convenience or add additional friction to the experience, because an experience that is open, accessible, non-intrusive and non-restrictive inherently implies lost opportunities of revenue at each one of those unrestricted points (which is a weird paradox of digital capitalism, in which to make your product more profitable it has to become worse, which flies in the face of the traditional capitalist theory that you make the most money by making the best product, but that’s another story and I don’t wanna get sidetracked).
Anyway what I wanna get at, is that each person has their own points of friction (mobile becoming app-only, old reddit dissappearing, who knows) past which they would find the idea of transferring platform less intrusive than the experience they would get by staying on Reddit. And the fact that cutting Google off is even in the realms of discussion shows that Reddit is very willing to reach those points and beyond. If these changes pile up and the friction created in the experience by them becomes significantly greater than the idea of transferring platforms, then it’s not outside the realm of possibility that Reddit will bleed out slowly by taking actions like this. Time will tell.
Bro wrote an entire essay to say “it’s a little early to tell, let’s check back later.”
They pay me by the word, don’t tell anybody
That CEO has definitely shorted Reddit somehow.
To do that before the IPO is some next level shit.
It’s a good time to do it, get really high revenue and IPO before it can die out
But I don’t see how it hurts the company at all, even in this thread you find people saying “yeah but it’s popular “
Yeah.
