cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/317922
Alternate title: Google admits Reddit protests make it harder to find helpful search results
cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/317922
Alternate title: Google admits Reddit protests make it harder to find helpful search results
The article starts with absolute non-news: To get results on reddit.com you should addd
site:reddit.comto your search, not justReddit.Unfortunately, I think this is a disadvantage of the Fediverse when it comes to search: The “site:” operator won’t work when searching for topics discussed e.g. on Lemmy since there is no common, general domain name.
Maybe that would be a great next step for a search-engine provider to be better: Add a new, flexible operator, like
scope, and index the data of the fediverse or other distributed services for search. E.g.DIY Esp8266 camera activator scope:fediverse,scope:lemmyor maybescope:diasporaI never bothered with that. All my results were from reddit.com anyway with just appending reddit to the end. Even Bing chat would add reddit to the end of search for you without asking.