Comment on Reddit hints at expanded AI-powered search

henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dditty@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  While I agree it sucks, AI might be the only way to fix the dogshit dumpster fire that is reddit search. And now that reddit stopped Google from web scraping new posts it might soon be the only way to find recent information that way.

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I thought Google and Reddit had a deal to allow Google to use Reddit’s data for training Gemini. Why would they stop Google from scraping new posts, and when did that happen?

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    • dditty@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Looks like you’re right, last summer reddit and Google made a $60 million deal to allow Google Search to continue crawling new posts, but they’re the only search engine with access to new posts thus far

      theverge.com/…/reddit-blocking-search-engine-craw…

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      • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thanks. I read your comment and thought I missed something.

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• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It would be hard to make Reddit search worse, so have at it

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  • Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    now with 300% more fossil fuel usage!

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