How users discover information on the internet is changing
Reddit’s search engine is notoriously awful, if I wanted to find something on Reddit I would Google it with site:reddit.com in the query, that gets great results.
As for Tik Tok, isn’t that a short video site? Its very popular and clearly good at what it does, but how can I search it for a Wikipedia article, or a rotten tomatoes review of a film I’m interested in, or bus timetables, or opening times for a local store, or helpful coding solutions, or wiring diagrams for circuits, or converting values or translating text, or any of the many, many more things I use Google for every day.
On a personal note, while I’ve sold my soul to one or two major western corporations, I’m never going to willingly provide the Chinese government with any more information about me than it may already have. Certainly not about to start directly informing them of my searching or video watching habits.
Nor will I ever support their genocides and many other human rights violations and evil cruelties if I can avoid it. Tik Tok isn’t just some hip new app that’s cool to use, it’s an evil fascist government’s tool for surveillance and control.
Crazy thing is, I’m not even a conspiracy nut, I’m just citing a well known fact, and yet people keep using it anyway because they just don’t care :-(
Yeah I’ve notice how Google search has increasingly become an ad delivery engine.
Amazon now pushes tons of cheap Chinese trash the likes of wish.com, Google pushes fucking irrelevant ads, and Reddit just went down the toilet. I’m really seeing everything great become shitty first hand :(
Why not useDDG instead of all the weird options mentioned in the article?
Bing is fine. DDG uses it. Adding reddit to your search is an old trick. Only searching with TikTok was new and weird for me. I have no Idea how this works.
Considering the TikTok user demographics, you’d do better without its search results.
Yeah, I either use Ecosia or DuckDuckGo these days. Ecosia is ok if you carefully craft your query.
I do not understand why Google has become so ossified. They must know they’re strangling their own business, surely? Do they somehow think they’re irreplaceable? That no one will ever build a better search engine? And the best they can come up with is AI-generated search nonsense? As if that’s going to help.
Stop trying to make maximum profits for minimum effort, fire whatever useless exec is in charge over there, and get someone who actually wants to fix things before someone eats your lunch, Google!
Not surprising really. Google has decided that it really doesn’t want me to use it so I switched to DDG a couple of years ago. And it doesn’t feel like I’ve lost anything of value.
It’s sad that search is in the state its in these days. It’s harder to find useful or in-depth information. The first results are always someone who has used SEO to get to the top of the results to sell their product or just other garbage. If you really wanted to find people’s opinions on things, adding site:reddit.com/r/whatever_topic to your search really was the best way.
Lol was this written a year ago? All the homies use AI powered search now. Bing chat is surprisingly good for me
