L4sBotGoogle Says the Reddit Blackout Made Search Worse
CandelestineYeah... that is pretty much the point of a protest. It is certainly not supposed to make people's lives more convenient, and if convenience is unchanged then it means people probably don't know you're there.
Weaponized inconvenience is a powerful thing.
Which goes to show how useless google is without the millions of people it profits from to generate content for it's advertising business
How easy of a time would you have using the web without a search engine? Do you feel the same way about Duckduckgo?
I use DDG as my primary, and my general feeling is that I don't mind some advertising to make money, but Google is objectively bad these days. At the time I started using DDG, Google was still probably the better choice in terms of search results. These days, DDG is competitive, but more importantly, I don't have to scroll past half a page of ads masquerading as results.
talWell, hopefully it means that there's high-level attention at Google to providing an easy way to search the Fediverse and the like, if they're aware of the importance of searching forum systems.
Really more of an indictment of Google than on Reddit in this one. Google needs to change their search again so shitty SEO doesn't make it through the top results, and instead have more genuine results be at the top.