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Reddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT as Search Citations Drop 86%
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1350973/reddit-almost-disappears-from-chatgpt-as-search-citations-drop-86
promptwatch.com/data/reddit-citations-are-dropping-in-chatgptWhile I’m not a fan of scrapping you would think reddit would want this to push traffic to the site. Get a good answer and follow the referral link and you have a new monkey.
I think it had the opposite effect. I believe the recently didn’t renew their contract with Google because they were upset people weren’t coming to the site, just getting answers from Gemini. I could be wrong, but I thought I read that
The guys on LTT mentioned this during their Linux challenge, but I’ve found it to be true -
Scouring forums for answers to obscure errors used to take hours. Now I just throw it at Gemini, troubleshoot in real time and find the fix.
I’ve even started asking it to give me a PDF of the steps we took and filing them away for future me.
I like to ask it for a beautiful html page instead of a pdf. PDFs are a pain later on.
Tonight I spent the time spinning up a silverbullet instance and converting the PDFs to .md files. You’re right, PDFs aren’t searchable and will be a pain as the database grows.
Thanks for sharing :)