As over 8,000 subreddits go dark, Google's results, which often improve when adding “reddit” to the search, have suffered
Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit's upcoming API changes, and it's shown me just how much I rely on Reddit to find useful, human-sounding information in my Google search results.
I know the Reddit blackout is sort of a punchline on Twitter, but it's basically made Google worthless. Last night, I tried to look up why an actor was replaced on a show I'm watching and all the results were Reddit threads and all of the subreddits were private. https://twitter.…
all day people have been asking me what to do to find good results on google search with reddit down, well i have the solution! simply add this to your searches... #RedditBlackout #Reddit [image]
lot of “rip bozos” and “good riddance” on this one but honestly reddit should continue to exist because adding “reddit” to the end of google searches is literally the last remaining bastion of getting actually relevant results https://twitter.com/...
now that appending searches with “reddit” no longer works for targeted queries, google is officially useless. reddit blackout has highlighted the fact that google is just a propaganda and data farming site. what is everyone using for alternative
Google should acquire reddit for $10 billion and just run it at a loss. With the reddit blackout, they just lost their most valuable English search results. Keeping that information online is absolutely worth <1% of their market cap.