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

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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] rtfm_modular@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I read half this article and just thought, “yeah no shit.” I swear Google conditioned everyone to just settle for dumb answers.

It’s amazing how few people understand how SEM works or the fact that Google makes services for freely available in order to build a profile on you and sell targeted ad space. The algorithm is tuned to for clicks. The amount of sponsored results and crappy listicles you need to scroll through is unreal. “Reddit” was the shortcut to opinions outside of sponsored influencers with affiliate links… but I’m sure TikTok and YouTube will fill that void just fine.

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[–] HetchKay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What search engine are you guys using now? Any workaround?

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[–] slowbyrne@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Even though I think places like Lemmy and Reddit are awesome for hunting down other people's experiences, I wonder if guiding people to places like Codidact or Stack Overflow for actual questions and answers is a better solution for the world. If Codidact joined the Fediverse, that would be ideal. It would just be important to have redundancy in the datasets of each instance. Would suck to lose an entire subject's worth of answers if an instance shutdown.

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