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Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. (www.marginalia.nu)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (12 children)

As useful as Mozilla/5.0; AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.3

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[–] [email protected] 200 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Even worse, Reddit itself has been getting infected with corporate AI-generated "recommendations"

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I look forward to Google being forced to down rank any sites with “reddit” in the H1.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That's why I use "site:reddit.com" instead of just adding "reddit"

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Stop using "reddit" and use "site:reddit.com", searchers.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Here's a tip:

site:reddit.com

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do you think it will ever be possible to do that for all the Lemmy instances?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. The best option we have imo is a service that indexes everything on one site so traditional search engines can find it. That requires someone to build it, and AFAIK that's hasn't happened.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That or the search engines themselves implement their own fediverse instances just for the purposes of indexing results. At a certain point if the platform becomes relevant enough I think we could see that happen.

I think they'd probably prefer instances that they have control over to reduce the avenues for a third party to manipulate the results. Otherwise they have to trust whoever runs the search instances.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much all content gets federated to lemmy.world so if you use site:lemmy.world that'll do it.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy's built-in search barely works as it is, so unless some drastic changes happen it's resounding no.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Web search engines don't rely on sites' built-in search features.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

There's something very Darwinian, very artificial selection about this.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Google also sneak "reddit" into the "People also ask" section.

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