I discovered the kagi search engine last week and it's so much better. No ads. I can move favored sites up or pin them in the search results.

It feels absolutely nutty that it's gone from

• Reddit search sucks, I literally use google to search stuff in Reddit
• Things I've never seen: Page 2 of Google

to

• I literally need to add reddit when I do a google search
• I cannot find what I want after page 5

Google used to be synonymous with reliable results and Reddit as the awkward website you barely spoke about. Now you need to use reddit to find proper results because the slow bleeding that is SEO has screwed over Google.

This is a good change as it may expand to more sites. I'm one of those users that used reddit in query often looking for opinions or reviews. We should get Lemmy on the list.

Why do they call stuff "Googling" as it was a real word, if Google is failing at being a search engine?

If Google makes changes that stop people from clicking through to reddit due to the protests then the protests will have likely done more lasting damage than anyone imagined.

No shit lol