One of the great joys of working on a search engine is that you get to reverse engineer SEO spam, and overall study how it evolves over time.
I’ve been noticing the search engine spam strategy of adding ‘reddit’ to page titles for a few years now, but it feels like it’s been growing a lot recently. I don’t think it’s actually working, but it’s so cute that they are trying.
This is how we found anything on reddit for most of its useful life. Its search was always garbage so we relied on Google to come up with usable results.
Here’s a tip:
site:reddit.comOr do this:
-site:reddit.com
Do you think it will ever be possible to do that for all the Lemmy instances?
Lemmy’s built-in search barely works as it is, so unless some drastic changes happen it’s resounding no.
This is how we found anything on reddit for most of its useful life. Its search was always garbage so we relied on Google to come up with usable results.
It already works pretty well if you just add Lemmy to the search.