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People use Google to search Reddit because Reddit has terrible search. Nothing more than that. Your other assertions would need to be proved more rigorously. N
by endisneigh 5y ago
People use Google to search Reddit because Reddit has terrible search. Nothing more than that.
Your other assertions would need to be proved more rigorously. Not just for Google, but for any search engine.
Don’t know what’s so difficult to understand about that lol.
- foxfluff 5y ago> People use Google to search Reddit because Reddit has terrible search. Hey why don't you prove your assertion. > Your other assertions would need to be proved more rigorously. Not just for Google, but for any search engine. These are not my assertions. It's a claim the fine article is making. And they're not the only one making that claim. Anecdotally a lot of people are saying they do this to get useful results because Google results are trash. For example: https://www.resetera.com/threads/google-search-is-just-trash-now.125691/#post-22235872 https://www.resetera.com/threads/google-search-is-just-trash... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27429722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27429722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27379228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27379228 Heck there's even a website for this: https://sirchester.app/ https://sirchester.app/ > Because Google results have been spammy and useless lately. Adding "reddit" or "hacker news" often yields better results.
- arbol 5y agoI reckon the parent is correct about reddit having poor search capabilities. I often search for terms with site:stackoverflow.com as searching within stackoverflow consistently asks me to fill in a captcha challenge or gives poor results.