Reddit going dark means you can't find anything useful on Google

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There's a certain irony in Google only being useful to find Reddit links, but Reddit's own search engine being so dogshit that you can't find anything on the site unless you Google it

Adding “Reddit” to your Google search only helped because content from Reddit wasn’t linkfarm blogspam.

Frankly that was changing anyway. Reddit was going downhill well before the api changes.

I've always heard that reddit search was no good, I always used the joey for reddit app and the search seemed to work well. What was wrong with it on the browser?

Watching all "Top ten list insert.." Youtubers suddenly becoming very quiet.

Google has been a shitballoon for years now.

I’ve been trying Kagi lately. It’s not bad. You have to pay for it, but there are zero ads and their interests align with mine.

Hey everyone, since this is a major event, we're trying to keep things tidy on our instance and centralize the reddit situation. Please see the Megathread on beehaw at: https://beehaw.org/post/550898

Literally hit this yesterday. Wanted to look how about battery issues on Steamdeck. I don't run Google, but SearXNG, and a ton of the hits were for Reddit directly. Hopefully, though I doubt it, folks will eventually learn to stop giving our data, knowledge, privacy, etc to corporations.