Forums hve been dying for a decade so I’m not sure what other discussion sources they can add, aside from maybe Quora and maybe Twitter.
HN? I'm sure there are many 'HN-like' forums for many other topics.
Anyone know of any?
Discussions: Real human answers in search results
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#32The content of Reddit discussions on relative merit are terrible. Usually a bunch of groups are repeating long-held misconceptions that may have been true at some point but are no longer true, and get upvoted by people that recognize the same out-of-date facts. I'm not saying the web-at-large is _much_ better, but curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard).…
In fields where I have expertise, the Reddit discussions I've seen are worse than nothing - the wrong answers to the wrong questions. I find them a waste of time, with very rare exceptions. Perhaps I'm painting with too broad a brush, and some subreddits are valuable? > curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard) Yes! I would love a search engine that is limi…
>Yes! I would love a search engine that is limited to high-quality sources.
I'm pretty certain Google ranks pages higher if they are viewed as authorities.
Also, I think quroa does this
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fields where I have expertise, the Reddit discussions I've seen are worse than nothing - the wrong answers to the wrong questions. I find them a waste of time, with very rare exceptions. Perhaps I'm painting with too broad a brush, and some subreddits are valuable? > curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard) Yes! I would love a search engine that is limi…
>Yes! I would love a search engine that is limited to high-quality sources. I'm pretty certain Google ranks pages higher if they are viewed as authorities. Also, I think quroa does this
Yes
E-A-T: Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness
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#34The first rule of using Reddit for research, is that you don't tell anyone you are using Reddit for research. Implementing a feature like this will turn Reddit into an astroturfed, SEO hell. There are already articles of people spending a few hundred bucks to make BS go viral on that site. This can happen more invisibility then an old-school forum (glad Brave is including those BTW), since this unnatural behavior can…
It's already gamed to death.
I live in India and I've found astroturfed products on reddit (It's not popular here).
A while ago, I was looking at pet transportation companies. I came across many innocent looking threads asking for the same which had recommendations for companies.
Nothing suspicious except username which had a pattern. I searched for the pattern and found few more similar username doing same recommendation under similar thread.
In the end, all of it were accounts by the company or market firm hired by them.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fields where I have expertise, the Reddit discussions I've seen are worse than nothing - the wrong answers to the wrong questions. I find them a waste of time, with very rare exceptions. Perhaps I'm painting with too broad a brush, and some subreddits are valuable? > curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard) Yes! I would love a search engine that is limi…
>Yes! I would love a search engine that is limited to high-quality sources. I'm pretty certain Google ranks pages higher if they are viewed as authorities. Also, I think quroa does this
They don't weigh it nearly heavily enough IME. Most of the search results are useless.
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#36>> For now Brave Search Discussions come primarily from two sources: Reddit and StackExchange. Brave will be adding more sources for Discussions in the near future.
Actually there are other sources already, I searched 'gemini protocol' and HN is there.
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#37I wonder why Brave Search doesn't have an option to disable the suggestion feature.
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#38I hope Reddit has a good anti-bot system in place. Brace for SEO spammers, they're coming to your subreddit.
> Brace for SEO spammers, they're coming to your subreddit. Or those million complete waste of time MVP vote whores who just paste the "Reset PRAM" or other irrelevant standard block pasts to every question on the google support groups.
Yes, if anything is worse than Reddit it’s the official forums of the large tech companies.
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#39The first rule of using Reddit for research, is that you don't tell anyone you are using Reddit for research. Implementing a feature like this will turn Reddit into an astroturfed, SEO hell. There are already articles of people spending a few hundred bucks to make BS go viral on that site. This can happen more invisibility then an old-school forum (glad Brave is including those BTW), since this unnatural behavior can…
It's already gamed to death. I live in India and I've found astroturfed products on reddit (It's not popular here). A while ago, I was looking at pet transportation companies. I came across many innocent looking threads asking for the same which had recommendations for companies. Nothing suspicious except username which had a pattern. I searched for the pattern and found few more similar username doing same recommend…
Similar experience. I was looking up standing desks. Any subreddit related to standing desks were saturated by businesses and their social media reps. While I appreciate that they were upfront, it is getting even harder to get an honest, real person review of various consumer products and services.
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#40How concerned should we be that this only works because currently SEO has no incentive to target Reddit or StackOverflow, and if this takes off, those communities will be overrun by SEO spam?
The types of questions (software recommendations etc) that spammers would answer tend to be off topic in StackOverflow. And off-topic answers tend to get flagged and down voted very quickly.