Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in August 2023. At the time of publishing, it was projected to have over 346 million visitors in April 2024.

    • @douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      281 year ago

      Making it extremely hard to actually find professional content because Reddit tends to cater to the lowest common denominator and most professional subs tend to corrupt over time.

    • @spongebue@lemmy.world
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      111 year ago

      The most professional content I’ve seen lately is things like a spaghetti recipe that explains the history of spaghetti, and my kids don’t normally like spaghetti but they took seconds of this one because it’s so good!

      Now, let’s talk about your choices in water here. You could go to a nearby spring and collect your own, but I find storebought water is just fine. You want to boil that water, which works best under high heat unless you want to wait forever!

    • MysticKetchup
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      81 year ago

      Google has been killing those off for a while. Nowadays it’s hard to find anything that isn’t just the copy-pasted SEO bait non-articles covered in ads

    • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      How can I find those more professional sites? I’d need some, as it’s sometimes hard to find info on OS API, as “it’s bad practice to not use Johnny’s Janky and Bloated Everything Library (JJBEL), that still handles XInput controllers through the DirectInput API, but it also has other extras”. I’ve had issues with RawInput under Windows (with that, in theory, I can use Xbox One/Series controllers to their fullest potential), and all I get is either SEO-ridden advertisements for existing libraries (which wouldn’t be a problem if they didn’t have massive problems), or tutorials for said libraries. Since I’m working with D, I have to interface to C calls, which wouldn’t be a problem if they were documented properly and in an accessible way.

      My own D native and less bloated SDL replacement’s (iota) development got halted for getting null for device pointers no matter what, and with no proper instructions on how to resolve it.

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    451 year ago

    This is actually a good sign that Google is taking steps to fix their broken search engine. All it seems to deliver anymore as SEO-optimized crap “blogs” with affiliate links. Linking to Reddit without the user having to include “reddit” in the search is a sign they’re actually trying to deliver good results again.

    • @rasakaf679@lemmy.ml
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      81 year ago

      You can use -

      intext:“modlog” & “instances” & “docs” & “code” & “join lemmy”

      Just pin it in clipboard. Use it after search to get results from across Lemmy

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      I don’t know I am getting really shit results on all major search egines lately. Very location specific when I want general information and when I want to have some me times getting decent results, with moderation turned off, is piss poor.

  • @mormund@feddit.de
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    341 year ago

    Just in time to not be able to see anything on Reddit without signing in. And I’m sure companies won’t figure out how to astroturf even more.

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      reddit.com/r/somesub/comments/123456/some_random_post?share=1

        • Rentlar
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          11 year ago

          I’m suggesting Reddit could implement a Quora style ?share=1 at the end of the URL as what comes up in Google results. This is why you can click a Quora google result and get an answer, but then clicking any other question/thread brings up an undismissable prompt for you to sign up for an account.

          • @bamboo@lemm.ee
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            21 year ago

            Could you then bypass the quora login prompt with a user script that appends ?share=1 to every page?

            • Rentlar
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              21 year ago

              I haven’t used it in a while but in the past you could.

  • @Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    331 year ago

    These sites are great for finding answers but Lemmy solves the same problem as they do. I’m actually seeing Lemmy results quite often from google recently too (I’m using SearXNG btw, it displays what search engines individual results are from).

  • @jeffw@lemmy.world
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    151 year ago

    I was wondering if the bump was universal or if Google just thought I always wanted to see Reddit results based on my browsing history.

    Also, every time Quora comes up it amazes me that it overtook Yahoo Answers. It’s like Tik Tok vs Vine

    • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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      281 year ago

      I really don’t get how Quora gets ranked so highly in search results when it’s one of the worst sites I’ve ever seen. They somehow managed to fuck up the UI on a Q&A forum. And the answers are wrong like 30% of the time.

    • palordrolap
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      Quora was supposed to be the high-brow answer to Yahoo Answers, but then Yahoo Answers was killed off.

      Eventually the muppets found their way to Quora. Probably by accident at first, but the Quora moderation didn’t stop enough of the muppetry and now it’s just Yahoo Answers pretending not to be.

    • Diplomjodler
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      161 year ago

      How dare you doubt I’m human? Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!