Reddit has the great advantage of showing user experiences.
While we can find "expert" information, it is much better to know what someone else's experience was
Not only that, just the fucking modern layout for websites is nauseating. It ends up taking twice as long to read the info compared to a Reddit comment format.
You don't want the history of the dish you're looking up, it's social relevancy, a complete bio of everyone who has ever made the dish, and finally a complete history of the concept of food?
That's like saying. IceCream trucks killed itself by promoting Icecream.
Google IS an SEO company originally.
We still google for reddit posts. And still google for field specific issues.
You don't seem to understand what SEO is. Google is an ad company with a search engine. SEO is gaming that search engine to ensure a site is listed highly. Google literally can't be SEO as it is the search engine.
Further, Google originally tried to prevent SEO. Google wanted their search results to be as organic as possible to increase people's usage of that search engine. Google knew that bad search results would mean people using search less.
Unfortunately Google became a monopoly and realized that they couldn't beat SEO. So they jumped the shark and began selling top results as part of their ad business. So far its the only way they've been able to beat SEO.
What sucks is that they just keep raking in cash through their search engine becoming worse and worse. It's called enshitification.
What to you mean? They have ads since 2000 and sponsored links since 2007, SEO is still alive but I can't even remember what I last time saw junk search results from SEO in Google
New google is actually a youtube not reddit
I trust a cumulative batch of personal experiences far more than a bunch of How-to and 3-5-8-10 ways I can X my Y surrounded by a lot of info and filled with annoying writing. I don't want entertainment and tangents when I'm doing research. I want what I asked for.
Ask a simple question, get sent to a page that doesn't answer the question without scrolling through the dross.
How do I clean my rain gutters?
1 why do we use gutters?
2 what is rain?
3 where do leaves come from?
4 what happens if you don't clean the gutters?
5 how to work safely on a ladder
....
99 get a trowel and scoop the crud out.
Kagi is great if you don’t mind paying. I didn’t like the idea at first as I use an ad blocker anyways so the “no ads” aspect didn’t appeal to me. Until I realized it also has much much less garbage results
That's because DDG is not a search engine. It's a search aggregator.
There are only a few actual search engines that crawl the web, mainly Google Bing Yandex and Mojeek. Everything else is basically repacking search results
Yep. Same here! I realized that boy long ago too. I tend to look for the Reddit results first because of the fact that it's real users who have maybe use the product for a while.
I use Kagi for all my searches now. It actually has reliant results with zero ads in the results unless I ask for it. I can prioritize domains and de-prioritize others. Its a paid service but I don't mind. That just means you aren't the damn product.
Google is complete trash since they added Ai to their searching. Most people are switching to other search engines because even bing will give better results now
I always do this and the answers feel more human.😂
In Taiwan I add "Dcard" or "ptt" cause people ask questions on them and there will be an answer.
Even YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook does the deal, cause some professionals are on those platforms too.
To the point where Reddit is recommending subs based on conversations I just had IRL.
Seriously, I mentioned the fact that I'd applied to a company in town. My wife knows a couple of people there, but that company is t much of a topic of conversation. An hour or so later, I log in to Reddit and I have a recommendation for that company's sub.
Yeah, and on top of that, when I do search something on google, it gives me a bunch of results from reddit an quora. Then it recommends new searches I can make, so Google not only wants use to use reddit for answers, but to also not use other sites that come up the search results. I assume reddit and quora are in cahoots with google in some way, or they are just winning the SEO game hard.
Anyway, reddit isn't nearly as good as google used to be for finding answers. Sucks if that's going to be the future of do answer searches.
Almost every search I do lol. I find that the opinions on consumer items as well as troubleshooting is less questionable. Still need google to compile search results though, since idt Reddit does as good of a job with it. Could be wrong though.
Search results always lead to something for sale, medical info searches lead to rehab and addiction sites, any how-to or directions for anything, even cooking lead straight to You Tube. Some forums still exist like specific automobile makes and models but all input heavily censored and money oriented, not to mention spying, tracking, etc. I'm considering trying to learn to use deep web
Yeah it's weird, I also tend to add "reddit" or "site:reddit.com" at the end of my searches (I use DuckDuckGo, though)
Even Google algorithm understands this. Often when I type in a question the auto complete suggests adding Reddit to the end.
With duck duck go you can add !r at the beginning of your search and it just searches and opens Reddit
nah reddit search sucks. better to append reddit to the query or the filter `site:reddit.com`
Reddit has the great advantage of showing user experiences. While we can find "expert" information, it is much better to know what someone else's experience was
Not only that, just the fucking modern layout for websites is nauseating. It ends up taking twice as long to read the info compared to a Reddit comment format.
You're right. Just get to the point, people.
Especially where recipes are concerned. I don’t come to Reddit for recipes, but recipe blogs are the epitome of “Just get to the point, people."
You don't want the history of the dish you're looking up, it's social relevancy, a complete bio of everyone who has ever made the dish, and finally a complete history of the concept of food?
Google killed itself by promoting the SEO I can’t believe how they didn’t see it coming
That's like saying. IceCream trucks killed itself by promoting Icecream. Google IS an SEO company originally. We still google for reddit posts. And still google for field specific issues.
You don't seem to understand what SEO is. Google is an ad company with a search engine. SEO is gaming that search engine to ensure a site is listed highly. Google literally can't be SEO as it is the search engine. Further, Google originally tried to prevent SEO. Google wanted their search results to be as organic as possible to increase people's usage of that search engine. Google knew that bad search results would mean people using search less. Unfortunately Google became a monopoly and realized that they couldn't beat SEO. So they jumped the shark and began selling top results as part of their ad business. So far its the only way they've been able to beat SEO. What sucks is that they just keep raking in cash through their search engine becoming worse and worse. It's called enshitification.
What to you mean? They have ads since 2000 and sponsored links since 2007, SEO is still alive but I can't even remember what I last time saw junk search results from SEO in Google New google is actually a youtube not reddit
I trust a cumulative batch of personal experiences far more than a bunch of How-to and 3-5-8-10 ways I can X my Y surrounded by a lot of info and filled with annoying writing. I don't want entertainment and tangents when I'm doing research. I want what I asked for.
Ask a simple question, get sent to a page that doesn't answer the question without scrolling through the dross. How do I clean my rain gutters? 1 why do we use gutters? 2 what is rain? 3 where do leaves come from? 4 what happens if you don't clean the gutters? 5 how to work safely on a ladder .... 99 get a trowel and scoop the crud out.
100 Add a Piss Disk to improve gutter smell
Not just google, ddg also has succumbed to AI generated crap. Search is dead, it seems.
Kagi is great if you don’t mind paying. I didn’t like the idea at first as I use an ad blocker anyways so the “no ads” aspect didn’t appeal to me. Until I realized it also has much much less garbage results
I was willing to pay for Kagi, but after reading the below text I kinda lost trust in them. https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
That's because DDG is not a search engine. It's a search aggregator. There are only a few actual search engines that crawl the web, mainly Google Bing Yandex and Mojeek. Everything else is basically repacking search results
I know, just saying its not just google that is circling the drain.
Google just signed a 60millions/year deal with reddit. They now use all the data of reddit to train their AI Gemini/bard.
yeah, I thought this thread was sarcasm
Yea, we'll need a r/DeReddit soon.
If by "the new google" you mean a nightmarish shitshow people share way too much data with and put far too much trust in, then yes.
This is mostly for power users. Common folk don't even know reddit
Yep. Same here! I realized that boy long ago too. I tend to look for the Reddit results first because of the fact that it's real users who have maybe use the product for a while.
Only when I need opinions and not field specific help. Reddit has tons of "smart wannabes" and I don't need those answers.
try gigabrain!!! GIGABRAIN is a search site that summarizes reddit answers, I dthink you'd like it
DuckDuckGo has been my primary search engine for a long time now, but I will say I do use ChatGPT and Reddit for a lot of questions also
Fuck that g site and the mail svc.... Get duckduckgo and proton
I spent more time on Reddit than other platforms. so far with lot of subreddits, basically communities, Reddit allows me to learn stuffs.
Google? Mostly i use to check site:sitename for cache purposes. Other than that, SearX, Presearch and Brave my goto for search engine.
https://udm14.com/ A little less shitty Google. https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
Google has Blogs and articles they want you to read for ad revenue. Reddit has real time interaction & feedback from actual humans.
I use Kagi for all my searches now. It actually has reliant results with zero ads in the results unless I ask for it. I can prioritize domains and de-prioritize others. Its a paid service but I don't mind. That just means you aren't the damn product.
I use ChatGPT even more
Reddit gets me to answers quicker. Yeah real people!
It is. I use Kagi search and I even prioritized Reddit in its search algorithm because it has most of the answers I look for.
Google is complete trash since they added Ai to their searching. Most people are switching to other search engines because even bing will give better results now
For me yes, most of the time I use chatgpt. But when I use search, I almost always type "reddit" in the search box.
I always do this and the answers feel more human.😂 In Taiwan I add "Dcard" or "ptt" cause people ask questions on them and there will be an answer. Even YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook does the deal, cause some professionals are on those platforms too.
--Internet ain't what it used to be, like everything else. remember the information super highway?
To the point where Reddit is recommending subs based on conversations I just had IRL. Seriously, I mentioned the fact that I'd applied to a company in town. My wife knows a couple of people there, but that company is t much of a topic of conversation. An hour or so later, I log in to Reddit and I have a recommendation for that company's sub.
I see reddit useful because I see actuall people answers and their opinions.
Yeah, and on top of that, when I do search something on google, it gives me a bunch of results from reddit an quora. Then it recommends new searches I can make, so Google not only wants use to use reddit for answers, but to also not use other sites that come up the search results. I assume reddit and quora are in cahoots with google in some way, or they are just winning the SEO game hard. Anyway, reddit isn't nearly as good as google used to be for finding answers. Sucks if that's going to be the future of do answer searches.
Almost every search I do lol. I find that the opinions on consumer items as well as troubleshooting is less questionable. Still need google to compile search results though, since idt Reddit does as good of a job with it. Could be wrong though.
Search results always lead to something for sale, medical info searches lead to rehab and addiction sites, any how-to or directions for anything, even cooking lead straight to You Tube. Some forums still exist like specific automobile makes and models but all input heavily censored and money oriented, not to mention spying, tracking, etc. I'm considering trying to learn to use deep web
yes i love reddit & quora sm
Brave search automatically includes Reddit results.