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Reddit 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 p

Reddit 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 ago
If 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.

iepathos 3y ago

If 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.