![]() ![]() There’s been a lot of complaining about Google’s search results lately, especially when it comes to high-stakes subjective queries. Update (): Abhinav Sharma (via Hacker News): The evolution of Reddit from nerd water cooler to toxic sludge pit to “only website left with usefully indexed user-generated content” is one of the weirder tech stories of the last decade. ![]() The bizarre relationship between Google and marketers often means the first page is full of display ads and results that are effectively ads. Otherwise, I use Bing by default and Google as a backup.īut “DKB” is right about one thing: even if you are skeptical of the extent to which you can treat those charts as an indicator of trust in Google’s results - as I am - that results page is still pretty poor. So, whereas I used to rely almost exclusively on Google, I now do site-specific searches where possible. But sometimes the page I want will not be in the results at all, whereas it’s at the top of the list in Bing. Google results, at least for me, are no longer trustworthy, in the sense that I always wonder whether something is missing. This avoids SEO spam issues and can surface posts that don’t seem to be accessible otherwise. If I know the right Reddit or Stack Exchange to search, or if Amazon or Hacker News applies, I get much more useful results than searching Google (or any other general search engine). It’s true you can get better signal when you’re looking at discussions with actual people (even people you don’t know), with the added social context + validation of the specific subreddit. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust. Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries. ![]() The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. ![]()
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