You may not be seeing as many results as you expect.
    • bricks@lemmy.world
      56·
      1 year ago

      I was going to say… the only times I ever used Reddit search, it just prompted me to question why I was wasting my time, then googling “xyz problem statement reddit”

      • mremugles@lemmy.world
        14·
        1 year ago

        I wonder why it sucked so much? I’m no expert in terms of crafting a search engine, but Reddit has not lacked funds for some years now

        • WndyLady@lemm.eeEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          I always assumed that it increased engagement. Can’t find what you’re searching for? Put up a post asking (even though someone’s already asked that question 1,000 times).

        • marmo7ade@lemmy.world
          92·
          1 year ago

          The answer is always money. Did the awful search stop you from using reddit? No? Why would they spend money to fix it?

          This logic applies to every business in a capitalist economy.

    • Shialac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah… whenever I wnted to find something on Reddit, I would use Google with reddit as a keyword

      • Rhaedas@kbin.social
        12·
        1 year ago

        I’ve found I miss the old days of searching. Granted there was certainly far less to look through, but back when there were many different search engines trying to find the best algorithm to use, you could get programs that would query all the ones you added in the list and then sort them out, removing duplicate finds. First page always had great results. Although I admit I’d often just go use Hotbot and get solid hits too. Google later absorbed Hotbot’s database.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.today
        69·
        1 year ago

        People still use Google? I thought many of us, and specially in tech using platforms like this, left it behind years ago. But maybe not as many as I think.

          • Sho@lemmy.world
            104·
            1 year ago

            Duckduckgo has worked wonders for me, the app has a search widget as well.

              • TenorTheHusky@kbin.social
                39·
                1 year ago

                DuckDuckGo can search using almost any search engine anonymously. Want to search Bing? !b query. Google? !g query. Scratch this, I remembered wrong what those do.
                I do believe there’s a setting to aggregate the top results from several different engines as the default search algorithm.

            • stringere@lemmy.world
              4·
              1 year ago

              Don’t forget about bangs for searching alternate sites: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs !w = wikipedia, !e = ebay, !zillow = guess, !r = reddit, etc

              Just put your bang in front of the rest of the search you want to do on that site: !g why doesn’t Google use bangs? !ddg Why does Duck Duck Go use bangs?

          • mrmanager@lemmy.today
            63·
            1 year ago

            Kagi is not only decent but much better. It’s fantastic. I switched when it was new and never looked back.

            Try a few searches with both Kagi and Google and you should see quite different results.

              • GizmoLion@kbin.social
                4·
                1 year ago

                Lol that’s a wild concept. $5 for 300 searches… so now when I go down a rabbit hole I have to count my searches.

                Also, that gives them perverse incentives. If they make searching just a little frustrating they can get more searches out of you = more money. That’s not right.

        • marmo7ade@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Alphabet’s market cap is 1.5 trillion dollars. How do you suppose their stock is worth so much if people are not using google? Ads are their primary source of revenue.

      • Hextic@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        If not, soon.

        The big thing will be consolidating all that useful information stuck on there to somewhere search engine readable.

        • Resistentialism@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          What’d be the feasibility of making a search engine, that actually works, to search for only reddit? Without all the bullshit.

          • Hextic@lemmy.world
            7·
            1 year ago

            Eh? I lemme rewind a bit.

            Reddit has a lot of info. Have you wonder why nowadays to do a proper Google search people tag on “reddit” at the end to bypass SEO bullshit?

            What I’m saying is it’d be nice if we can get most of that info moved over to the fediverse. It’s brought up cuz a lot of groups are moving to discord which can’t be searched.

            • Resistentialism@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 year ago

              Okay, yeah, I’m out of the loop with all the SEO stuff. Thinking about it, yeah jve had to do that a bit.

              I didn’t realise. My bad.

      • milos_obilic@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        Well we all knew old.reddit was going to die, they told us they will eventually shut it down, ever since redesign.

  • garyyo@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    Wow, they really went all in alienating their user base.

    What the fuck actually happened behind the scenes to cause all this? Like I get that some upper leadership is probably trying to cash out or something, but why? What is the motivation? What changed all of a sudden to cause this?