Google's AI deal with Reddit is having another benefit, giving the dominant search engine a major advantage in surfacing current results from the social media platform.

at least we have competitions

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
    57·
    3 months ago

    Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.

    !reddit search term

    It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing’s results. It’s that simple.

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
        19·
        3 months ago

        Even better. Thanks, been a while since I’ve looked up specific ddg bangs.

    • fpslem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      This has historically worked because Bing (from which DDG draws results) previously indexed Reddit. What indications do we have that it will work after this change? As I read the articles, I thought it wouldn’t work going forward.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        Bangs don’t actually search w/ Duckduckgo, they just redirect your search to whatever search provided is configured for that bang. In this case, it just goes to reddit.com and uses its search function. They’re really handy when you definitely want results from a given service and don’t want to type out “site:service.com” or whatever.

          • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            It gets crazy when you use a redirection extension like libredirect. If you tell libredirect to redirect to a redlib instance, the !r or !reddit bang will try to send your query directly to reddit, and then instead you’re presented with the search results on a no JavaScript frontend. This is what I do, a lot less clutter than reddit’s site.

    • moe90@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      410·
      3 months ago

      the thing is this is not monopoly and it much more like duopoly between Google and brave search. So, it is hard.

        • moe90@feddit.nlOPEnglish
          13·
          3 months ago

          it is bearable and no captcha for VPN users (unlike google search)

            • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              3 months ago

              Why is Brave allowed to index reddit and other engines aren’t? Just switched to them and am not interested in reddit search results.

              • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
                71·
                3 months ago

                OH, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were saying search itself is a duopoly between Google and Brave Search.

                You’re saying searching Reddit is a duopoly between Google and Brave Search.

                That’s my bad… but yeah, the article is just wrong anyways, Kagi also has access still (presumably through their deal with Google to use Google’s search results as part of their result set). I wonder if Brave has a similar deal … or their crawlers just haven’t been blocked yet … or they paid off Reddit.

                EDIT: Also, I will say because Brave search has such a small market share that’s probably not going to help Google’s case much.

                • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Yeah I wasnt trying to make any point, just learn more about brave’s access that given their small scale compared to some other browsers seems out of place next to Google

                • fpslem@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  Also, I will say because Brave search has such a small market share that’s probably not going to help Google’s case much.

                  I’d venture a guess that Brave is still allowed to search Reddit just as a legal fig leaf for Google’s arguments with regulators.

  • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    Well, it only gives a bigger reason for other search engines to index the competition.

  • callmepk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    312·
    3 months ago

    Kagi can still search Reddit content tho (blocked part of url because I have Kagi rewrite url to redirect to my private Redlib instance)

    I think this is because they use some sources from Google and Brave?

  • msage@programming.devEnglish
    251·
    3 months ago

    Fine by me - I don’t use or like any of them, AND they will make sure I won’t see them elsewhere? Jackpot

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    It’s a good day to be a metasearch engine user. No need to worry right now about one company essentially having a monopoly on indexing a certain site.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah absolutely, tear that company to a million pieces, but it would practically be a shorter list of common search engines that it can’t be used on. Between Google, Brave, and Bing most other search engines are just built upon those three.

    • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
      302·
      3 months ago

      You just sound stuck up when you say that. Like “is windows still a thing? I didn’t know because I use Linux. Don’t you?”

      Of course Google is still a thing, by far it’s still the largest search engine in use on the planet, so most people won’t notice it. If anything, this hurts all the not-Google users. Can you imagine if different sites started signing exclusivity deals with different search engines?

      • point5a@programming.devEnglish
        24·
        3 months ago

        The last time I used Google, I searched for timer app, the result was blue light filter! No timer in the first 6 pages! The result was always irrelevant.

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      Is one of the biggest companies on the planet still a thing!?

      🤔