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 BrikoX   ( @BrikoX@vlemmy.net )  to World News · 3 years ago

Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it

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Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it

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 BrikoX   ( @BrikoX@vlemmy.net )  to World News · 3 years ago
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cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/317922

Alternate title: Google admits Reddit protests make it harder to find helpful search results

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    IIRC, they cited google as a reason not to work on their own search, since that’s what most of their userbase had got used to searching reddit with anyway by that point.

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      Reddit also cited 3rd party apps, bots and extensions as a reason to not develop many of the features on their own… and here we are now.

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