Reddit is taking over Google

yeah because the majority of Reddit content reflects an objective and genuine human experience--not PR/fluff, or AI, or copywritten/outsourced shit. In a web overflowing with paid, shill, or automated shit or 'content', this is becoming increasingly had to find and is sought out. People do not want 'more content'-they want to read an experience by a user.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by Terr_ » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 5:58 PM UTC

When doing such searches I don't actually want Reddit specifically, my real goal is just to find information that is (supposedly) from a human discussion between individuals, as opposed to conclusory "articles" or "best of 20XX" or "top 10" etc.

In other words, I don't want Google to elevate Reddit, I want them to classify site-types and allow me to filter results for "forums", which would include the long-tail of less-known smaller places.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by Loughla » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 6:01 PM UTC

paulpauper wrote: post #5

yeah because the majority of Reddit content reflects an objective and genuine human experience--not PR/fluff, or AI, or copywritten/outsourced shit. In a web overflowing with paid, shill, or automated shit or 'content', this is becoming increasingly had to find and is sought out. People do not want 'more content'-they want to read an experience by a user.

I'm fairly certain that pr companies figured reddit out about 5 years ago.

It's still pretty good for niche products and hobbies, but as a recommendation machine, is pretty garbage.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by chomp » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

> Responding to a post on X, Google search liaison Danny Sullivan said users not only like seeing "forum content" but that they "proactively seek it out."

Nothing cures my imposter syndrome more than seeing so many Google employees completely fail to understand what is happening here.

People aren’t tacking Reddit to queries because they particularly like Reddit or because they want to see user generated content, it’s because it is literally the only way to get a result from Google that is not spam listicles or affiliates grifts. They’re applying a bandaid to their rapidly deteriorating search, but championing it as giving the people what they want.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by didip » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 6:03 PM UTC

Naturally, Google should buy Reddit.

Re: Reddit is taking over Google

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Post by bozhark » Wed, Apr 17, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

Loughla wrote: post #7

paulpauper wrote: post #5

yeah because the majority of Reddit content reflects an objective and genuine human experience--not PR/fluff, or AI, or copywritten/outsourced shit. In a web overflowing with paid, shill, or automated shit or 'content', this is becoming increasingly had to find and is sought out. People do not want 'more content'-they want to read an experience by a user.

I'm fairly certain that pr companies figured reddit out about 5 years ago. It's still pretty good for niche products and hobbies, but as a recommendation machine, is pretty garbage.

Yeah that’s why you use Google to search back to the useful years

edit: also because Reddit search is so abysmal