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   Jason Evangelho (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 05:21:28 JST Jason Evangelho

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   • Jared Newman

   @Newmy It’s true! When did DuckDuckGo become a search engine? And why are half of my results improved if I just add “Reddit” to the search?

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     Jared Newman (newmy@writing.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 05:21:29 JST Jared Newman

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     • Aaron Pressman

     @ampressman The news filter is like the only thing that Google is still useful for.

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     Aaron Pressman (ampressman@journa.host)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 05:21:30 JST Aaron Pressman

     Oh gawd
     The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won’t help publishers sleep any easier...Google confirmed some users were not seeing the News filter as part of ongoing testing. “We’re testing different ways to show filters on Search and as a result, a small subset of users were temporarily unable to access some of them,” a Google spokesperson confirmed https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/why-is-the-news-tab-missing-from-some-google-search-results/