Hate when the reddit links shows up first even tho its related to lemmy not reddit
this is a example search for example when i search [Something] lemmy it will show the reddit link even tho its not reddit releated
Update: Finally its the second result lol
am prob gonna delete this due to some drama... yeah hello from mastodon or whatever
I don’t see the problem with this search result. You searched for Lemmy clients and the first link gives a list of Lemmy clients for Android. It happens to be on Reddit but it does match your search.
Google doesn't have any reason to think you care about competition based on your query. You asked for a specific bit of information and it showed you websites with that information.
If you want a result from a specific website, you need to specify that in your search query. Otherwise, stop complaining about getting the answer you were looking for.
Google made a deal with Reddit so they artificially push their results to the top. I don’t even know if Google indexes any of the fediverse sites. The mere fact that the fediverse is fragmented probably means hits are spread across sites, lowering the results in the rankings (ten sites with one customer click thru vs one site with ten customer click thrus).
You should actually use -site:reddit.com to remove only Reddit links. Just using -reddit.com will also remove any pages that link to Reddit, which would filter out a lot of non-Reddit results.
It’s worth “comparison shopping” with search engines. Run some common queries on multiple engines and see which ones fit what you like. Google takes up a lot of the mindshare for sure, but there are absolutely other options that will probably surprise you with how good they are.
I’ve just accepted the tons of Brave downvotes at this point. At least 80% of it’s profit doesn’t come from having Google as the default search engine 🙂
That's honestly way worse because OP asked a subjective question and they likely want subjective answers and actual opinions, and not a list of all the apps.