• eToThePiIPower@programming.dev
    2·
    1 year ago

    One long-term solution would be to ask the relevant question in a relevant community on lemmy every time this happens to you. Then answer it yourself (or wait for other to), perhaps using the other site (via archive.org) as a reference when writing it up.

    The important bit is to make sure the answer here is complete and not just a link to outside sources. That way it won’t disappear if those other sites go offline.

    With enough people doing this we can push lemmy into those search results and build a useful & independent repository of knowledge.

    • DeriHunter@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think you understand, we are the ones who are getting fucked. Search results are getting worse and harder for you to find what you need with all the ads, fake news, sponsored sites, ai generated articles, etc… Google doesn’t care if you find high quality results, they will still gett traffic and their money because people won’t just stop using it.

      • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        1. Don’t use Google.

        2. Learn how to search the internet, its not hard.

        3. Adblock is your friend.

        4. People will stop using it only when it becomes unbearable. Their own business tbh.

      • Fatalchemist@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Google is already an awful search engine and was most useful only for reddit. Search Engine Optimization killed it.

        For example, do you know why every recipe Google shows has a 35 page life story article before the recipe? Because it takes you longer to scroll through the page and find the recipe and see if that’s what you want. So Google says oh, this website is good and entertaining and full of so many words! This goes higher up! They don’t write the stories because the bloggers care. They write stories because it’s the only way to get their website seen on Google.

        Meanwhile the website you actually want… The one with a simple recipe and no fluff? Well that’s not going to sell itself to the Search Engine Optimization. So it’s much further down on the list, several pages down.

        The same shitification is happening with every website. Every website is a little bit worse than it has to be simply to optimize it’s position on the almighty Google.

        When you look for the “top shoes for running” or “best phone of 2023”, those are just rushed articles with no research done by people with the sole purpose of pumping out millions of articles just to get some spots on Google.

        Google was only good for linking to reddit because reddit could never get their search engine working no matter how many times they tried it.

      • privacyn@feddit.itEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        There good and sometimes better alternatives to Google, you can easily leave without it or use it only when necessary

  • itchy_lizard@feddit.it
    1·
    1 year ago

    Please post LINKS to Lemmy, not screenshots of headlines. Ffs, even your “source” link goes to an image, not the article

    Mods, can we please crack down on this dumb-ification of Lemmy? We’re better than tiktok.

  • CharlesReed@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not just with subs going private, but with users purging their comments and posts along with their accounts. Just last night I was talking to a friend about something and wanted to pull up a post from a while back. Lo and behold, deleted and gone.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    @IcyPractice@sh.itjust.works please add a link (archived link if current version is unavailable) to the article, whose image/screenshot you have shared, both on this post, and the crosspost. It becomes an issue for blind users to be able to read context of the post you share. And make it a habit.