{"id":59285,"date":"2023-06-13T19:13:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T23:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=be6b49167cc53c85da19ec402b4df6ce"},"modified":"2023-06-13T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T23:13:29","slug":"google-is-getting-a-lot-worse-because-of-the-reddit-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59285","title":{"rendered":"Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: The Verge - All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: Reddit was one of the last indexed places not _completely_ overrun with SEO spam, paid fake reviews, and other Min-Max short term gain long term destruction behaviors - that's a big part of why it's so unfortunate that they've lost the plot. Especially since a lot of hobbyist content seems to be moving toward Discord, which is an information black hole.<\/div>
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Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s upcoming API changes, and it’s shown me just how much I rely on Reddit to find useful, human-sounding information in my Google search results.<\/p>\n

With Google’s generally poor search results nowadays, appending “reddit” has long been the default way I search for almost anything (and no, I’m not ready to get my info from an AI chatbot, either<\/a>). But given the sheer volume of subreddits that are currently unavailable — including some of the most-subscribed subreddits<\/a> — clicking through many Reddit links in search results takes me to a message saying the subreddit is private. <\/p>\n