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What makes you assume non-techies aren't feeling like the quality of results is lower? Plenty of people moving their search needs to reddit, tiktok, even pinter

by herval 4y ago

What makes you assume non-techies aren't feeling like the quality of results is lower? Plenty of people moving their search needs to reddit, tiktok, even pinterest seems to indicate that it _does_ affect them - they just don't articulate it as "the google algorithm yada yada"

Gigachad 4y ago
Reddit search is garbage. What people do is they search on google “headphones_model review reddit” on Google which shows them somewhat less fake information than the SEOd blog posts that would come up. Sure maybe it would be good if Google prioritised these results by default but that would just result in reddit becoming more manipulated since whatever the default search shows will be gamed.
- mentalpiracy 4y ago
  If not priority, at least fix the actively-misleading results page. So many examples, choose your own adventure. One that annoyed me today: on mobile, reddit search results will all say like "3 days ago" or "6 days ago" and then the actual link takes you to a six year old post.
- herval 4y ago
  Personally, whenever I want to search anything about TV shows (particularly the most recent ep), games (particularly sticky ones like rimworld or factorio), I quite literally search directly on Reddit, bc the Google results are never relevant
kogok89 4y ago
This says more about a shift in the way of consuming content, and the quality of the content than the search results quality/algorithm itself. People are tired of fluff and want direct quick answers; Reddit, TikTok, Pinterest, etc, all provide that. People don't want to search for a bread recipe, click to see it and be forced to scroll through 3 folds of ads and the history of bread in eastern europe, to get to the list of ingredients.
- photochemsyn 4y ago
  Physical cookbooks are still quite nice to have around for this reason.
  - cplusplusfellow 4y ago
    I would (and have) buy a cookbook on Amazon before sitting through recipe ads. It’s as bad as porn hub.
- herval 4y ago
  > People are tired of fluff and want direct quick answers; When didn't people want "direct quick answers"? Google got popular because that's what it used to give you - the answer you want used to always be the first or second...

by herval 4y ago

Gigachad 4y ago

Reddit search is garbage. What people do is they search on google “headphones_model review reddit” on Google which shows them somewhat less fake information than the SEOd blog posts that would come up. Sure maybe it would be good if Google prioritised these results by default but that would just result in reddit becoming more manipulated since whatever the default search shows will be gamed.

mentalpiracy 4y ago
If not priority, at least fix the actively-misleading results page. So many examples, choose your own adventure. One that annoyed me today: on mobile, reddit search results will all say like "3 days ago" or "6 days ago" and then the actual link takes you to a six year old post.
herval 4y ago
Personally, whenever I want to search anything about TV shows (particularly the most recent ep), games (particularly sticky ones like rimworld or factorio), I quite literally search directly on Reddit, bc the Google results are never relevant

kogok89 4y ago

This says more about a shift in the way of consuming content, and the quality of the content than the search results quality/algorithm itself. People are tired of fluff and want direct quick answers; Reddit, TikTok, Pinterest, etc, all provide that. People don't want to search for a bread recipe, click to see it and be forced to scroll through 3 folds of ads and the history of bread in eastern europe, to get to the list of ingredients.

photochemsyn 4y ago
Physical cookbooks are still quite nice to have around for this reason.
- cplusplusfellow 4y ago
  I would (and have) buy a cookbook on Amazon before sitting through recipe ads. It’s as bad as porn hub.
herval 4y ago
> People are tired of fluff and want direct quick answers; When didn't people want "direct quick answers"? Google got popular because that's what it used to give you - the answer you want used to always be the first or second...