hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Googlewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.mlnews@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@feddit.chtechnology@lemmy.worldreddit@lemmy.worldreddit@lemdro.idtechnews@radiation.party
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minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoGoogle can index other forums, like our own. If Reddit doesn’t want to be indexed by external search engines, then they gotta build their own or be unsearchable. Their existing search is abysmal.
minus-squarefalsem@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoReddit has been trying to build a usable search since 2008. It’s not happening.
Google can index other forums, like our own. If Reddit doesn’t want to be indexed by external search engines, then they gotta build their own or be unsearchable. Their existing search is abysmal.
Reddit has been trying to build a usable search since 2008. It’s not happening.