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Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.

Unless you happen to already know of a specialized forum for a topic, it increasingly feels like Reddit and Wikipedia are the only parts of the internet that are still valuable; everything else is content farms or SEO spam. Even then I'm finding that Wikipedia's quality has dropped dramatically in recent years. As they become more zealous about only including "encyclopedic information", I'm increasingly finding pages…

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Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Baby with the bathwater. The paid shills are typically obvious and do not survive proper cross-thread analysis

It's hilarious that you think that

Friendly reminder that this isn't reddit, and responding like it is won't improve this sites health.

Refute the opinion, or add something of value, instead of simply sneering.

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