Reddit communities are still private in protest of new API rules. Twitter moved beyond a login wall and is rate-limiting users. Users are frustrated but still using these sites.
But — what will happen to the Google Index? Millions of search results are effectively dead links. Users that refined Reddit search results via Google are now out of luck (Reddit’s search is inferior). Tweets in the search engine results page (SERP) now lead to a login wall for many users.
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Apart from having less content to search trough, google has also just been giving me less usable results. Instead seeming to find me stuff for queries similar to what I type rather than what I actually type. It’s gotten so bad I’ve found that I’m quicker at finding what I need using yahoo or bing :/
edit: This may just be my way of searching, or the scope of questions I have. But it is frustrating
No I agree Google search has seriously declined. I find myself using yandex and bing often to find what I am looking for.
You may want to try yahoo, it’s a old-google like shell over bing search