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Impossible to use. I’ve started adding “ Reddit” to my searches but even now that’s not working as well as it did.
The web is the lowest common denominator. The high quality information is elsewhere and Google isn't allowed to reveal it due to rights holders, such as Google Scholar and Google Books.
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Impossible to use. I’ve started adding “ Reddit” to my searches but even now that’s not working as well as it did.
You have to use "site:reddit.com" which selects that specific domain, otherwise you get any page that contains the word reddit, and spammers are certainly catching on to that trick.
With all the Googlers here and this question being asked again and again including by myself I wonder if this feedback has already reached the right folks at google but there just isn't much that could be done given the business incentives at play.
And then the products - does anyone wake up every day feeling super excited to help push ads and shrill partisan hacks to boomers? It’s like to work there you just accept “this is how it is and I like money” and you punch a card and leave. It must be a miserable existence for anyone who truly ponders it.
This topic is posted about once a month for the last 13 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There’s been some debate about this here on HN and someone made a point that resonated with me: The quality of _the web_ has been in decline lately. With ML’s capacity to paraphrase original content and to generate plausible rubbish content from scratch, it’s very difficult for Google’s pagerank (or whatever they call their algo these days) to fight back. That been said, there does seem to be a fair bit of scraping a…
Also the quality of hyperlinks has declined precipitously. Google's big insight was that what people say about a page matters more than what the page says itself. Hyperlinks were fundamental to the (pre-2013) ranking algorithm, in ways that were far more fundamental than just pagerank. This worked really well when people authored HTML pages by hand (or in FrontPage or DreamWeaver) and would promiscuously link out whe…
With all the Googlers here and this question being asked again and again including by myself I wonder if this feedback has already reached the right folks at google but there just isn't much that could be done given the business incentives at play.
Honestly I don’t think anyone at Google or Facebook really cares that much. They are old companies, the big money has been made, and it’s pretty much impossible to launch a new successful product. Everything big has been acquisitions for a decade. If you climb up to executive level it’s just twiddling thumbs until the cash cow starts to die, then you ride off into the sunset because nothing is going to replace the ca…
I’m also not concerned with privacy/whatever so I won’t switch to something equally as good or worse to make a statement.
Case in point: I was just trying to find some information about TGV rail routes. Standard Google searched yielded nothing but spam. Appending “Reddit” game me posts more than 5 years old with out of date information.