Reddit @lemmy.world abolishredditnaw @lemmy.world 5d ago

Anyone else just stopped using reddit after not getting it in search results?

This just started yesterday or the day before. I use Firefox with Duckduckgo as a search engine. I wanted to look something up so I put the classical "reddit" at the end of my question. I couldnt find reddit at all. I was confused at first.

After searching it up I found out that reddit would only be indexed if you are using the google search engine. No more. I used to love reddit but now I'm tired of the website.

Lemmy for life!

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No, Reddit frequently has answers but lemmy has too little content for now
- Definitely, but I'm a firm believer in being the change you want to see. I'll be contributing to this site rather than reddit from now on
  
  Lemmy being decentralized doesn't make it very search engine friendly. Because it's federated across multiple instances, none of them reach a critical mass big enough / trusted to be constantly at the top of results. Duplicated content across instances can be flagged as spammy content.
  
  Same! But I won't only search lemmy unless I want zero info
only be indexed if you are using the google

?
- Not working for me
  
  This is bizarre.
  
  I'm using the DDG search engine in the DDG browser and I'm getting reddit results with your search. The only difference was I didn't choose Canada as my region. I tried Canada(en), I tried all safe search options, and I tried Canada (fr) and each time I got Reddit as my first search results.
  
  Versus google search engine
I've been looking forward to this actually.

As far as I'm concerned, automatically avoiding Reddit just by avoiding Google (which I already do) is a welcome bonus.
- I guess I'll use my phone even less now. Sometimes inconvenient but beneficial in the long run
I find absolutely no value in that place now. It's morphed into nothing but a time sink and there are plenty other options for that.
I'm surprised the other search engines have got a antimonopoly ruling already
I thought I was tripping earlier but I just tested it and you're right. even using Boolean search I can only pull up user profiles, not posts.
Lemmy is good for general discussion. Current events, politics, rant about life, whatever.

Not gonna be useful for discussing thing like:

"Which is your favorite character of [Insert obscure TV show that 90% of people didn't watch]"

meanwhile, theres almost guaranteed to be a subreddit for that show.

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