• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Without google (or any other external search engine) reddit will be a worthless heap. One key feature of reddit was that one could find a lot of good information in relevant subs. A real treasure trove. But you could only find stuff with external engines.

    The internal search function was a worthless waste of bits that could not find anything relevant, even if it bit the search function in the a…

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      2 years ago

      Since the API exodus, I’ve only been using Google to look up something on reddit, strictly using cached versions only (no not give any more traffic to reddit). Whenever I could only find uncached hits, I still did the click of shame.

      Thanks reddit, now I can cut the last cord. I couldn’t have done it without you.