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I only use Google to search Reddit because the Reddit search is unusable, not because the Google results are.

• Gigachad 5y ago
  Both are true. Reddit search is useless but google search can also be useless until you put reddit in.
• kromem 5y ago
  Maybe Google should buy Reddit, build a better search across it, and set AlphaGo to use karma scores on Reddit to better identify relevance across search results on Google proper.
  • ItsMonkk 5y ago
    > karma No! Goodhart's Law. Karma in itself is pointless. The reason that adding reddit to the end of a search query has better results is because you are querying a community for your results. There are already bots on reddit that take submissions that hit the frontpage 366 days ago and re-submit, and then other bots that take the top comment and resubmit the comments to that submission. They get loads of karma doing this. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes not. But it does nothing to improve actual credibility. The larger the subreddit, the SMALLER the community. r/AskReddit is not reliable. r/MechanicalKeyboards is. You want to find a small, tight-knit community of peers that know each-other. There are small communities of SEO experts just submitting Amazon affiliate links, so just 'small' isn't sufficient either. You want to vet that the posters are acting in good faith. Find the top posters, find things you know(and it's better if you disagree with mainstream opinion here), and check their other posts and see if you agree with them there. If you do, it's more likely that you will agree on this subject you are referencing and don't know much about. This process sucks - especially when you start - but over time you will accumulate a network of trusted people and communities that you can rely on. Anything else will be corrupted by greed.