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CNBC - Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml

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Plenty Google Search users were appending "site:reddit.com" to their searches to avoid SEO and get actual human answers. This became less useful with the blackouts, and Google is actually addressing it - through a new feature called "Perspectives". Allegedly the feature highlights forums and videos from social media (TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Quora).

This means that those search users won't beeline towards Reddit anymore. Instead there's a reasonable chance that they end in Reddit's competitors, including Youtube (owned by Alphabet, the same parent company as Google Search).

Given that 47% of the traffic of Reddit comes from organic search, this is going to hurt. A lot.

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[–] chri1stian@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I feel like site:reddit became the cheat code for actual answers but it makes sense that it would not be sustainable. Hopefully the reddit drama decentralizes this type of info and makes it more stable.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a bit of off-topic, but what feels weird for me is that I'm probably using search engines in a way that almost nobody does - because not only I don't use this "cheat code", but I've actively uBlacklist'ed reddit from appearing in search. (When I want an answer I want an answer, not a bunch of redditors saying "I dun unrurrstand" or circlejerking.)

Still, a lot of people do it. For those I hope that the new feature becomes useful.

[–] Bozicus@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I had a similar approach for most purposes, though I am too lazy to block sites that way. But I did use to go to Reddit specifically for skincare product reviews, because there are things I like to know before I buy that are not easy to find elsewhere. (And I don't mean honesty, just a few details that aren't necessarily on the label).

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on the kind of search. If you're wondering what was newton's second law, you can just Google that. If you're having an issue where your steam deck virtual keyboard is not showing up when you press its shortcut, the top 20 non-reddit Google results will all be random SEO articles about the basic features of steam deck.