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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by naravara on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:37AM (#23192657)
They prioritized showing up on searches over really precisely tuned results. If you search for an animated gif on any image search GIPHY hits are the main ones. It's all about that SEO.

And then they manage to make it hard to actually post the gif you found via the search engine, so you end up using the giphy platform to do it.

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by karatestomp on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:38AM (#23193422)
Like Pinterest, I don't understand why they show up on image searches at all. They make it almost impossible to actually get at the image.
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