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HoneyChilliPotato7 t1_j7hjnif wrote

Reply to comment by JustOneAvailableName in [N] Google: An Important Next Step On Our AI Journey by EducationalCicada

True, I don't remember the last time I used Google search without adding reddit at the end

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here_we_go_beep_boop t1_j7hpycy wrote

Yep, the entire result space is utterly polluted by SEO trash

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HoneyChilliPotato7 t1_j7ido0d wrote

Honestly I don't even believe the websites anymore. Today I was searching for good sports bar in my city and couldn't find any reddit threads. I decided to give Google search a try but I didn't want to believe the information is true. It felt like the local bars are paying the websites to boost their rankings.

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TheEdes t1_j7mym42 wrote

You're deluded if you don't think SEO doesn't exist in a worse way for LLMs, there's tons of papers about that, you can just mine for phrases that increases likelihoods just by observing outputs.

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here_we_go_beep_boop t1_j7nfi60 wrote

Sure it's just another ams race, doesn't mean that conventional search isn't broken tho

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RobbinDeBank t1_j7kykin wrote

Reddit refusing to implement any half decent search engine and force us to use Google instead

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HoneyChilliPotato7 t1_j7lf6nt wrote

I would prefer it this way. Otherwise reddit would have too much power and eventually become like Google search

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RobbinDeBank t1_j7lih1k wrote

All hail our new big tech overlord Reddit (if they didn’t skip that class on search in college)

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TheEdes t1_j7mysgv wrote

The other day I (mobile) searched for something related to meme stocks and the pills under the search bar showed the News followed by a button that said (+ Reddit), I clicked it and it literally just added reddit to my search term.

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mirrorcoloured t1_j7hum3j wrote

I think this says more about you than Google.

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hemphock t1_j7i4tqx wrote

yeah, but its not just them. https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-web-search-queries-poll-results-3119551/

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mirrorcoloured t1_j7l8e29 wrote

Wow I didn't expect numbers that high! I wonder if there's a large AA/reddit overlap, or if that's representative of search as a whole.

Google is showing a steady increase in reddit interest over time, and the second related query I see is "what is reddit". It's interesting that it's roughly linear and doesn't have the increasing growth that you'd expect from word-of-mouth spread.

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hemphock t1_j7mtsvp wrote

yeah it's been like that for years. idk reddit is just a well moderated website with lots of small communities around a lot of topics. i think the lifecycle of its communities is the secret sauce. communities will peak and then get crappy (pretty reliably imo) but you can just leave and join new ones.

i dont think the 70% is a good sample though. its a poll of user responses to androidauthority.com

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