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People add reddit to searches because it gives high quality answers. That’s not a Google problem. That’s a problem with the Internet. Your average independent
by wayfinder 3y ago
People add reddit to searches because it gives high quality answers.
That’s not a Google problem. That’s a problem with the Internet.
Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that one writer’s perspective.
- reisse 3y agoGoogle problem is that appending reddit is the only reliable way to get something different from shitty copywrited SEO trash sites. I don't know when I last saw real independent websites and blogs in the search results, probably ten years ago?..
- mrbeast6001 3y agoI agree to this one. Google is often pointing to websites that haven’t been updated in years, or reused their content from 2008 by adding 2023 at the end of the headline
- noblecreator 3y agoThe clear example of quality vs. quantity. Quora definitely wins in terms of quantity.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoAt least it's better than how MS handles its documentation. The number of times I've hit "404 fuck you" when looking for info on their products...
- wayfinder 3y agoI rarely see a good independent blog. Honestly the barrier to entry for a blog is very low and the benefit isn’t very high unless you spam it with ads, so who is exactly taking the time to make a blog?
- skilled 3y agoReddit quite literally links out to SO and blogs for any technical query that is beyond "how to list folder in linux". This has nothing to do with a writer's perspective but Google's inability to address basic indexing issues like understanding whether the page is actually useful in a sense that it explains the root cause of the problem, or does it say shit like "this has been answered already, just search for it". Since they started to roll out this update I am constantly running into either: - Useless Reddit posts with 1/2 comments. - Useless forum posts that are locked behind registration. It's not that there's a problem with these sites inherently, the problem is that Google is promoting pages that basic NLP could tell you is worthless because it doesn't actually provide an answer - it's a question in of itself. --- E: I also know how to downvote and not make a comment. It doesn't exactly invalidate what I said.
- iepathos 3y agoIf you search google for "how to list folder in linux" it immediately gives the correct answer in the top result in plain text, not even requiring you to click through to the site. Reddit isn't even in the first page of search results. Typically google gives SO results for me with technical queries, not reddit. I don't want to invalidate what you said, but it's anecdotal just like my experience, maybe you could provide any actual technical queries that result in bad reddit posts dominating top 10 rather than valid posts like SO.
- antifa 3y ago> how to list folder in linux More realisticly you're searching for "list folder in linux $CAVEAT_A $CONTEXT_B" and all the results are useless because one of the key words are silently dropped for each ad filled auto-generated result. Then you'll search for "how to A in B?" And all the results are how to do the opposite ("how to B in A"). Where both directions are logical but order means something different.
- IshKebab 3y agoSpammy low quality websites in a large proportion of searches isn't a Google problem? I'm sure that will reassure them when someone comes along with a search engine that solves that problem and people start moving to it from Google. "Not our problem!" they'll say as their traffic dwindles.
- bogwog 3y agoRealistically, the only thing that's going to affect Google's market share is government intervention. So, cross your fingers that the DOJ wins their lawsuit (https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/google-is-clearly-buying-its-way https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/google-is-clearly-buying-it...)
- wayfinder 3y agoIt isn’t when high quality sites don’t really exist. The high quality sites ARE reddit and the like. No normal person is going to spend the time to make and maintain a blog, especially if it doesn’t make them any money unless they spam it with ads.
- BeFlatXIII 3y ago> Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that one writer’s perspective. That also describes each individual Reddit comment. Reddit's magic is that it places them all next to one another for easy comparison.
- wayfinder 3y agoBut that’s the point. You get a bunch of competing opinions in one spot and writing a reddit comment doesn’t require maintaining a blog so you get a greater diversity of opinions.
- jdietrich 3y agoThe problems that people blame on Google are also problems for Bing and DuckDuckGo and everyone else. I'm a DuckDuckGo user, but I don't believe that I'm getting meaningfully better search results than I would with Google; the internet just has a pervasive problem with signal-to-noise with no obvious solution.
- paradox460 3y agoTry kagi. It's actually better, and you can reduce or even banish crap like quora from your results
- brookst 3y agoGoogle created the problem by rewarding sites that have content farmed (now ChatGPT generated) 5000 word essays on the history of flour before every bread recipe. Google created the SEO mess that makes non-redddit sites undesirable for most searches.
- oezi 3y agoPeople append Reddit because Google otherwise only gives 2-5 answers from Reddit often without a way to see more.