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{Weekly Discussion} Google finally releases reason why Reddit ranks first
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Not only spam but people are getting dumber if they live their lives on Reddit. No hate intended but lots of Reddit moderators are basement dwellers and have no clue about real world experiences. And they get to influence a huge part of the world’s population.
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Well it was Reddit posters that took down Game Stop stock brokers, let’s do it to Google 😂
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literally exactly what I said weeks ago and got downvoted consistently.
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what’s Reddit?
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I don’t mind Reddit results because I use them too when I want real people’s opinions. I especially use them on things like getting stuck in a game – I just want that one solution to my problem, I don’t want to read a whole guide with a load of overstuffed content setting the scenes like it’s a food blog. So I understand the user behaviour there. I also prefer it for personal recommendations rather than a blog written by someone who is just writing about that thing to sell something or get traffic.
What I do resent is Quora! That site is awful, awful, awful. Terrible user experience, forcing a login, terrible layout, it’s actually often hard to even find the answer. I avoid clicking through at all costs and I find it hard to understand why anyone would use that site. When I have looked in the past the answers are often spammy.
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No one cares
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I’ve begun habitually adding “reddit” to many of my searches (contrary to the quote above) specifically to avoid the entire blogosphere which has lost its value to me. Browsing blog results has become a matter of reading the same watered down listicles written more for search engines than to actually help me find my answer. For that purpose, reddit wins every single time. I know folks are losing their income with these changes, and that’s no good, and I’m not saying everything Google is doing is great, but honestly the blogosphere has been “diverting” me from answers rather than providing them for a while now. It is low value and overpopulated with too many folks saying the same thing over and over. It’s time for the paradigm to change.
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It seems odd to title this thread like we somehow “finally released” the reason for surfacing more forum content when it was all covered in a [blog post we did back in November 2023](https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-november-2023-update/), which itself was a follow-on from our [blog post we did in May 2023](https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-perspectives/).
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Users started adding reddit to search only because Google stopped ranking small blogs that actually answer questions.
They should have rolled back their defavoring of small blogs instead of overloading their search results with Reddit.
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Ahaha lets all write our content here and see what happens
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> But actual searchers seem to like it. They proactively seek it out. It makes sense for us to be showing it to keep the search results relevant and satisfying for everyone.
^ What a joke. Yes, people DO seek it out but it’s not because Reddit is so great, it’s because Google’s SERPs are so shite.
I’ve been appending “reddit” to my searches for years now. It’s still pretty hit or miss. Lot of spam and lot poorly informed comments BUT it’s still better than the big publisher dominated first page of Google that is regularly full of SGE garbage or Forbes type sites that are pure money grabs.
But hey, monopolies gunna monopoly!
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People like it and people search for it. That’s why the query “whatever + reddit” was so common.
In the past, if i wanted to see reddit, I just added it to the search.
Now, if i wanna se websites (not forums), theres no way to do that
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They’re right. As a searcher I’d rather read a reddit post than someone regurgitating the same content in blogspam. Blogspam has been killing search relevancy.
Everyone here is pissy that they have to change tact but search had gotten awful due to the standard tactics.
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Wow this really took a rocket scientist to figure out.
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All any legit publisher wants is a fair game. Google used to be a level-ish playing field where both big and small could compete and win. Right now, it’s not a fair game.
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