Re:Google Search Is Dying
by 8organicbits on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:40PM
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`site:reddit.com` has been worked poorly for me recently, although I've used it many times in the past. He's my most recent search (I was traveling and trying to watch Netflix, but geo-block was preventing some shows from appearing):
The entire first page is for NetflixViaVPN subreddit (not linking to avoid SEO). They have a stickied post that seems to shill two VPN providers I haven't heard of. This is plausible, as maybe Netflix hasn't either... The stickied post has comments disabled, so it's hard to tell. Then if you click other posts, a bot auto-links the stickied post, but everyone is making different suggestions that may imply the stickied post is wrong.
Interestingly, the same search on DuckDuckGo only has three posts from that subreddit. This better matches what I wanted! The first one I'm seeing is:
This seems much more plausible. All those comments suggest a provider I've heard of and that I've heard other people mention IRL. Google seems to rely too much on the URL or the page header, so it's stuck in a single subreddit.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Areddit.com%20ne...
The entire first page is for NetflixViaVPN subreddit (not linking to avoid SEO). They have a stickied post that seems to shill two VPN providers I haven't heard of. This is plausible, as maybe Netflix hasn't either... The stickied post has comments disabled, so it's hard to tell. Then if you click other posts, a bot auto-links the stickied post, but everyone is making different suggestions that may imply the stickied post is wrong.
Interestingly, the same search on DuckDuckGo only has three posts from that subreddit. This better matches what I wanted! The first one I'm seeing is:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN_Guide/comments/rgh2xn/best_netf...
This seems much more plausible. All those comments suggest a provider I've heard of and that I've heard other people mention IRL. Google seems to rely too much on the URL or the page header, so it's stuck in a single subreddit.