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moe90 @feddit.nl

7mo ago

Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit

at least we have competitions

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Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.
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!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.
- yes. Also, !r is reddit also.
  
  Even better. Thanks, been a while since I've looked up specific ddg bangs.
- 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.
  
  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.
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This isn't going to hurt Google's antitrust cases at all... Noooo sir.
- the thing is this is not monopoly and it much more like duopoly between Google and brave search. So, it is hard.
  
  Brave search...? You're joking right...?

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

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?
- And I'm doing the opposite over here lol
  
  Man reddit has a treasure trove of answers to shit though, pinterest though that is a must.
- blocked part of url because I have Kagi rewrite url to redirect to my private Redlib instance
  I had no idea this was a thing. Thats going straight on my self-host todo list.
- not everyone want to pay though
  
  Yeah, I know, Reddit is just being asshole for another time as we all know
  
  https://searx.space/
- I have the assumption that kagi's results from reddit have gotten sparse lately. but maybe it's just me
  
  I setup a Lens so that if my query contains a single letter 'r'', only Reddit results will be returned.

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

Brave is chromium dressed nicely.
No competition here.

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.

I though it is only Google, now Brave join ? What about Bing ? Do they chip in soon ?

TBF thats like 7/8ths of search engines used by most consumers.
- TBF that's a textbook monopoly.
  
  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.

Is google still a thing!?
- 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?
  
  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.
- It's your mom's default search engine so I use it from time to time
- Is one of the biggest companies on the planet still a thing!?
  🤔
  
  I prefer quality over quantity!
- ...why is this the first comment on an 8 month old account? Weird
  
  Time flies! It was like yesterday! 😅

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