• kaitco@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s because it’s so impossible to find anything I’d use on a normal Google search that you have to add “Reddit” to your search to find anything relevant.

      Of course, post-API debacle, a fair amount of the responses you’d have needed are deleted, but ya know…

    • AnActOfCreation@programming.devOP
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      1 year ago

      No way, is this real? Seems like it would be a huge news story. Has Google ever had a specific search filter for a third-party website?

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        1 year ago

        It’s absolutely real. “Adding Reddit to Google searches to actually find useful information” isn’t a meme, it’s what people are really doing. And since Google has (allegedly) killed search operators, it’s the only way to cut through the uselessness that Google search has become. Although, I do have a sneaking suspicion it’s actually added by whatever AI they have on their backend that generates “useful” filters, not something Google itself directly added.