Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
I just checked the perspectives tab, since I’m on mobile. I guess Google wants people to be less reliant on Reddit, but it’s like… User-generated content on Reddit vs. Twitter/Tiktok/Youtube are not the same? Usually I put “reddit” in the search bc I want a quick and well-informed text-based answer to something. That’s still going to be the easiest thing to do.
There are some high quality forms out there. G really needs to hook into these forums and the fediverse if they need to replace the reddit content.
Text is why I always add reddit to a search too. I do not want a video in response to my search, pretty much ever, and on the rare occasion I do, I go straight to YouTube.
I don’t understand how YouTube results from Google are so fucking useless. How is it not returning the same results you’d get if you searched on YouTube? Who designs this shit?
Yeah that will be the thing I miss the most when looking for stuff as I try to rely less on reddit.
I get so tired of trying find information via blogs or YouTube. Most of them are:
“So you may have an issue doing this thing or you want to learn more about this thing so we are going to tell you about this thing. Blah blah blah as they go on telling you in different ways about how they are going to tell you and other reasons why you want to hear what they are about to tell you.”
Mostly seems to be a way to make you scroll down and be bombarded with ads (if you do not use an ad block)
Soo frustrating and waste of my time.
At 10-11 minutes they get a second ad roll, so 99% of videos are about this length.
It’s almost a certainty that a 2:30 video has more information than an 11:01 video.