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Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. (www.marginalia.nu)
submitted 10 months ago by jamyang@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 200 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 117 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even worse, Reddit

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair point

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's really strange it's still at 47 dollars in the stock market. That thing is extreamly overvalued.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Market is irrational. Donald Social is trash garbage with no future, looks like it has a $5.5 billion market cap.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

$5.5B with a yearly revenue of $4 million and a loss of $58 million. Even if they had $0 in expenses, it'd still take a little under 1400 years to earn the equivalent of their market cap.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

At least the older posts seem to be okay.

[–] recreationalplacebos@midwest.social 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean the ones where all the comments say [deleted]?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's like 1/10 or so of comments. Though it's fun seeing posts that have obviously been edited to advertise lemmy.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 6 points 10 months ago

Except when it's like... "I bet that was the answer I needed, crap."

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 5 points 10 months ago

Not completely though. A while ago I've had a wave of these comments on a 3 year old post of mine. They got deleted after I've reported them at least, though I don't know if that action was done by a mod of the subreddit or site-wide admin.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

And its inaccessible to a lot of people now anyway.

[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 139 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure google will disable that soon in the same way they disable all the other search syntax that used to make searching a simple and easy task

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[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Advanced search techniques should be a class in 6th grade

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Or better yet, try my filter... It's "-site:reddit.com"!

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Here's a tip:

site:reddit.com

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Makes me sad to think that this will soon be about as useful as "site:facebook.com" with the way Reddit is going.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Yeah maybe giving corpo trash exclusivity over the sum total of human knowledge wasnt the best idea?

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

Or do this:

-site:reddit.com

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

If you look for something related to piracy, sadly it won't show.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

Kagi.com has a lens for the fediverse. A lens is basically a scope within which performing the search.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months 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.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

It already works pretty well if you just add Lemmy to the search.

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Okay but reddit is also becoming inaccessible; how to migrate this data?

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Google being forced to

What an odd phrase

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I’ve spent a lot of time working in SEO.

Search results like this can drive people away from Google and toward other resources. Google likes money, and this is why they usually try to combat spammers that are gaming the system.

It’s a cat and mouse game that has been happening for years. Organic search spammers find a new thing, then Google tweaks the algorithm to downrank what they’re exploiting.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

then Google tweaks the algorithm

Well you don't have to read Cory's newest column to understand that Google hasn't been doing that, because they don't have to. They do not care, at least not yet, because they have arguably become too big to care.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Mine is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0. Joke is, this is the trimmed version (about:config Xorigin and trimming settings) and some pages already have problems with it. If you strip out the OS part, pages like google.com won't work anymore. Despite that you shouldn't parse the UA string...

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What browser agent is that?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Trick is I took out the actually useful parts like Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc. And the OS. All the agents these days have AppleWebKit and Mozilla just so old websites that look for it don't downgrade the experience.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, make your user agent absolutely unique. Too much entropy will surely confuse the shit out server side HTTP Header tracking. 😬

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Firefox doesn't pretend to use AppleWebKit. It's actually the only one which identifies itself correctly... mostly, at least:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

While about:support says "Window Protocol: wayland". But that's ok websites shouldn't care anyway.

It's other browsers who send things like "like Gecko" to sneak past old browser-detection code.

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

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

[–] MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I fucking hate seo abusers. I have to use a locally hosted ai for a lot of my "googling" because modern day search results are fucking worthless now.

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 22 points 10 months ago

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today 22 points 10 months ago

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

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

site:reddit.com

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

Am I the only one that wants to know more about this Japanese toaster you can fuck?

Surely I'm not alone here.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

Mouse, meet cat

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