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I don't know how many people have this practice, but Reddit also has become a good "answers" and "research" site to help find people what they want through Goog
by princevegeta89 3y ago
I don't know how many people have this practice, but Reddit also has become a good "answers" and "research" site to help find people what they want through Google Search. For example: If I search with "Alexa vs Google Home reddit", I am likely to find a lot of useful information from mostly real humans and their feedback openly available on the very site called Reddit. Omitting that "reddit" part in the query will lead me to the other news sites and blogs run by journalists and spammy media companies contain a lot of bullshit that I chose to only rely on Reddit for my quest for information.
I wonder why Reddit would want to charge consumers of its API, without providing any premium services like let's say, Twilio etc. Reddit must focus on monetizing its content and more strategization that will bring in more ad-revenue or user-generated monetary value rather than going after 3rd party API consumers that ended up doing a much better job of building a simple front end app for their content.
- kar5pt 3y agoYes. Google has become useless for certain types of searches. I find reddit to have recommendations that are much more trustworthy. It's not just product recommendations, things like book recommendations, career advice, scientific/academic questions. Reddit has answers to these kinds of questions that are very difficult to find elsewhere.
- MaxikCZ 3y agoI do the same, but its important to note that subreddits focusing on brand agnostic gadget niches (like electric toothbrushes) are riddled with bot accounts shoveling ads that look like human feedback, to the point of drowning the few actual humans out. The less popular gadget, the less bots there are.
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- reddisbad 3y agoI have the opposite experience. If I'm looking for some technical information (is this MTB suspension part compatible with this fork, or what's the charging profile for this particular battery chemistry, or how do I do x in new programming language y), and I end up on Reddit, I am 99% certain I'll find some vague but useless answer.
- AwaAwa 3y agoReddit is like a crowdsourced wiki. It goes wide and does a decent job on a variety of topics, but drastically fails when you need to go deep.
- princevegeta89 3y agoInteresting, I agree that technical info and help is not a strong suit for Reddit though.
- Silhouette 3y agoMileage varies. I find a lot more useful content on the better technical subs than I've seen on SO and its siblings for years. And the attitude is often much more pleasant as well.