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Google Says the Reddit Blackout Made Search Worse (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A senior Google VP said earlier this month that Google users who couldn't add "Reddit" to their queries were “not quite happy” following the protest.

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[–] space_iio@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which goes to show how useless google is without the millions of people it profits from to generate content for it's advertising business

[–] eltimablo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How easy of a time would you have using the web without a search engine? Do you feel the same way about Duckduckgo?

[–] whofearsthenight@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I use DDG as my primary, and my general feeling is that I don't mind some advertising to make money, but Google is objectively bad these days. At the time I started using DDG, Google was still probably the better choice in terms of search results. These days, DDG is competitive, but more importantly, I don't have to scroll past half a page of ads masquerading as results.