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What's the difference for users between Google buying Reddit and Reddit just shutting down now? One promo cycle? Less? There's no "long run" any more for Googl
by addaon 3y ago
What's the difference for users between Google buying Reddit and Reddit just shutting down now? One promo cycle? Less?
There's no "long run" any more for Google's touch of death, like there was for Google Groups; they've gotten quite good at speed-running value destruction.
- IvyMike 3y agoIt feels like it's more core to Google's search business than the projects normally shut down by Google. Maybe not quite on par with YouTube, but it could be close.
- addaon 3y agoIt seems almost exactly as good a match to Google's search business as Google Groups was...
- IvyMike 3y agoGoogle Groups was never at the level that Reddit currently is, at least in terms of search results.
- randomdata 3y agoDeja News/early Google Groups provided great search results. Google, in usual form, has been working hard to destroy any property outside of Web Search/YouTube for a long, long time, Groups included. The internet is bigger now, so Reddit has an advantage there, but Groups could have been what Reddit became if it received some love instead.