Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by yojo on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:17PM
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This exactly. I’ve been researching specific house repair issues and just get nothing but content spam. Whenever I want specific information I find myself adding “reddit” to the query string, which will usually turn up a thread with links out to the actual answer.
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Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by zadler on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:54PM
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Said it before and I’ll say it again, when Reddit finally becomes inaccesible via searches we will have lost a huge and very useful database of succinct information.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by nullc on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:11AM
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You haven't noticed that reddit has become substantially search inaccessible a number of months back?
Every reddit page while not logged in is full of hidden content from other unrelated pages. When you search, you'll get hits in these unrelated pages-- but when you follow the link it's not there (because it's on the unrelated pages).
Worse, the pages with the correct content aren't necessarily in the results at all because it was low enough in the thread that it was collapsed and wasn't visible to the search indexer.
It's not a total loss, but I'd say about 80% of my own comments are now difficult-to-impossible to find via search when they were easy previously.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by xerox13ster on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:18AM
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> I'd say about 80% of my own comments are now difficult-to-impossible to find via search when they were easy previously.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by zadler on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:11AM
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We seem to be approaching a point where it could be worthwhile to get a distributed index involved even if it is very slow and inefficient to update.