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

  • callmepk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    2 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
    241·
    2 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·
    2 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·
        2 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·
      2 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·
        2 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·
      2 months ago

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

      🤔