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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] Sterben@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We just need to keep it up. Contribute to the communities we like, and we will rank up surely. :)

[–] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that contributing is good overall, but with how this ranking system works, we might never make it to top Google search results even with good content. People are also spread over several decentralized forums rather than a single site (AKA Reddit, which is how Google likes things to be).

Sound a tad bit radical but the solution for me is to give up on Google and its attention-sucking click farming. I use Brave Search but it isn't significantly better. Maybe a solution for searching here is to have a search engine that goes through online forums/communities/subs.

[–] Zeus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

i imagine a fedisearch engine will come out that can search lemmy, kbin, mastodon, etc. efficiently; so instead of googling "how to x site:reddit.com", we'll just fedisearch "how to x"

in fact, i'm pretty sure i already found one but it wasn't very good, and i've forgotten it's name