There is https://redditsearch.io/
Reddit can't build a better search engine
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Re: Reddit can't build a better search engine
#192A lot of "influencers" get paid good money to shill on Reddit. It has a huge social media site. Of course, it is not ignored by the industry. Products, fads and politics. Over the last several years it has become quite infested. All is not lost. There are some really good smaller subreddits. For smaller subreddits who have been around for a long time social meia influencers are easier to spot. Some subreddits are so…
I largely blame Reddit's redesign. Once Reddit became more about infinite scrolling with media content becoming front and center, that made it much easier to gain attention through low-effort gifs and memes. It draws in the lowest common denominator of people looking to scroll through mindless content while on break. More eyeballs and more screen real estate means more opportunities to shill and propagandize. Old Reddit doesn't encourage this to the same degree because feeds are mostly composed of titles and thumbnails without infinite scroll or autoplaying media; much less exciting for mindless content consumers but better for those who are genuinely interested in discussions around particular topics. The change in Reddit's design brought in a very different element that also brought more shilling with it, and so many subreddits have turned into glorified meme generators.
Re: Reddit can't build a better search engine
#193> I was too young to use Google when it first got started, but according to many, in the beginning, Google had better or more accurate search results. I'm old enough to remember when Google came, and the main difference was this: With Google you did not have to flip through 3 pages of completely unrelated search results; that were paid for. Google used to display advertisements on the right as well, i.e. not among th…
And now the majority of the first page of results on Google are ads.
Re: Reddit can't build a better search engine
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recently have noticed a business creating fictional threads on reddit (multiple on different communities) working as an AD to sell something. Example: „What is the cheapest best cooling for cpu now?” All discussions point to product that more experienced users know its crap. But still the wrong product is at the top with most (botted) upvotes. Companies realized that ppl look for opinions on reddit -> that created de…
Thank you for sharing this view. There are a few nails in reddit's coffin and this is certainly one of them. I used to be able to gauge real world opinions on reddit pretty accurately, i.e. be aware what was happening before the curve. That is gone now.
I can second this. Looking for a Bluetooth speaker and if I believed Reddit I am throwing money away if I’m not buying Anker. I’m sure it’s fine but it’s disproportionately represented in Reddit over other audiophile forums
Re: Reddit can't build a better search engine
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a post, which trended on HN yesterday (2000+ upvotes) that stated Reddit is sitting on a gold mine and they can build a better search engine because people are appending 'reddit' at the end of it. This is a response to the original post, explaining why the logic behind is it false.
@rukshn Thanks for your post. Personally I'm not convinced by the idea of adding site:reddit.com to your Google search query either, not just because it will get gamed by SEO practitioners as you suggest, but also because there's a lot more to the internet than reddit and a lot of great content hidden away which isn't on reddit. I also believe that a more general solution to better search is both to reward informatio…
Sure, there are still single-topic forums that are much better for those subjects than Reddit, you just have to know about them.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ads are not the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is tracking. The internet has not been broken by ads. It’s been broken by data harvesting and monopolies. Contextual ads are no problem IMO, and can sometimes be a helpful (economic) signal. Without ads how can challengers get some awareness? So yes for targeted ads, but only if it does not require personal data. Contextual ads can be targeted without engag…
I hope you realize this is just your perspective. To offer the alternative, to me ads are the fundamental problem. As much as I don't want to be tracked and avoid providing my information in any way possible, I just assume I am being tracked. It does not "annoy me" while consuming some content. On the other hand, any random ad / paid promotion that gets through the blocking does annoy me immensely and I do consider n…
Sure I realize. I'm not alone in this thinking but reaslize I am out-on-a-limb. I totally understand your point-of-view; it was how I thought for most of my life. Perhaps it was my shift from being mostly developer and one-company focussed to later helping and/or working with or alongside hundreds of startups, including YC S12. Without ads to gain awareness and gow many now great companies would not have crossed the chasm. And we all benefit from those companies, from innovations that flourished, and use them in our toolset. Sadly a few of them acheived their own, or backers, goal of being a monopoly, leading to the annoyance, damage and extraction we all experience.
Re: Reddit can't build a better search engine
#197A lot of "influencers" get paid good money to shill on Reddit. It has a huge social media site. Of course, it is not ignored by the industry. Products, fads and politics. Over the last several years it has become quite infested. All is not lost. There are some really good smaller subreddits. For smaller subreddits who have been around for a long time social meia influencers are easier to spot. Some subreddits are so…
I largely blame Reddit's redesign. Once Reddit became more about infinite scrolling with media content becoming front and center, that made it much easier to gain attention through low-effort gifs and memes. It draws in the lowest common denominator of people looking to scroll through mindless content while on break. More eyeballs and more screen real estate means more opportunities to shill and propagandize. Old Red…
The low effort racist/political/pepe shitpost image macros came across from Facebook. My grandparents love them.
I wouldn't mind seeing a lot less of them on Reddit, but that's apparently the only part of the site's userbase that doesn't have adblock installed which is why Reddit caters exclusively to them.
Re: Reddit can't build a better search engine
#198> I was too young to use Google when it first got started, but according to many, in the beginning, Google had better or more accurate search results. I'm old enough to remember when Google came, and the main difference was this: With Google you did not have to flip through 3 pages of completely unrelated search results; that were paid for. Google used to display advertisements on the right as well, i.e. not among th…
And now the majority of the first page of results on Google are ads.
80% of queries have no ads
Re: Reddit can't build a better search engine
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alternatively, I could have searched for "flight comparisons" or "US airlines" back in 2002 if that's the type of result that I actually wanted. The problem is that there is no way I can tell current Google to give me stuff that's interesting, novel and information dense anymore. It's all well and good if I knew that the Museum of Flight existed before my search, but the point of Google is to tell me about its existe…
It's not possible because the demand for this is very low and implementation cost is extremely high. No one will pay for that.
> demand for this is very low and implementation cost is extremely high.
Demand is real as evidenced by everyone in this thread wanting such a search engine. We are not representative of genpop, but we aren't insignificant either.
Google had this in 2002 (i.e. a default to novel and info dense results unless otherwise specified), so it can't be that hard or expensive.
> No one will pay for that.
So we have ads.
Re: Reddit can't build a better search engine
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for sharing this view. There are a few nails in reddit's coffin and this is certainly one of them. I used to be able to gauge real world opinions on reddit pretty accurately, i.e. be aware what was happening before the curve. That is gone now.
I can second this. Looking for a Bluetooth speaker and if I believed Reddit I am throwing money away if I’m not buying Anker. I’m sure it’s fine but it’s disproportionately represented in Reddit over other audiophile forums
I really like my Anker Bluetooth speaker, it's an old one that just keeps on working, lasted longer than Android phones. Listening to it now, every morning - the Anker love is real. ;)