Reddit search was a little broken for hours, but it seems to be fixed
www.theverge.com
You may not have seen as many results as you expected.
    • bricks@lemmy.world
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      2 years 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
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        2 years 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

        • marmo7ade@lemmy.worldBanned from community
          01·
          2 years 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.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.today
        01·
        2 years 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.

          • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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            2 years 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
                2·
                2 years 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.

          • Sho@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

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

              • TenorTheHusky@kbin.social
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                2 years 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.

      • Hextic@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years 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
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          2 years 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
            1·
            2 years 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.