I've made a bad habit of attaching the word "reddit" to the end of too many of my searches even for questions that I should be looking for their answers in trusted sources instead of taking answers from random redditors the blackout has helped a little with avoiding that.
Wait until Google bots catch up and drop many of the links back to Reddit.
It is - but you can still access via archive.org and similar resources.
Doesn't help for searches though
You can copy the address of the search result into the way back machine or Google cache
You're absolutely right, true, but that will work for you and me, but not for your typical user, even the more advanced ones will be stumped at that point
I've definitely felt like my Google searches have been lackluster after a lot of subreddits went dark. from advices to game communities, it sucks to check other forums you have no knowledge of browsing or worse shudders quora
Are lemmy instances indexed properly as well? Would it be enough to put "lemmy" into the search
100% has this happen today. Wanted and answer, the only answer was on Reddit, and the Google link was busted.
I was looking up traefik labels for my new Lemmy docker-compose setup and had to reference reddit.
You can prepend a link with "cache:" to view Google's cached version of the site. This works automatically with the url bar in at least Firefox and Chrome (likely other browsers as well). If your browser doesn't support that you can enter it in the google search bar and the result will be the cached version of the site (if available)
I've run into this several times already
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