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Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@vlemmy.net to c/news@beehaw.org

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Alternate title: Google admits Reddit protests make it harder to find helpful search results

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironically, reddit's search feature was also trash. If I wanted to find something on reddit I just went to google and appended "reddit".

[–] SevYote@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC, they cited google as a reason not to work on their own search, since that's what most of their userbase had got used to searching reddit with anyway by that point.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit also cited 3rd party apps, bots and extensions as a reason to not develop many of the features on their own... and here we are now.