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Alternate title: Google admits Reddit protests make it harder to find helpful search results

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

“Many of you may wonder how we have a search team that’s iterating and building all this new stuff and yet somehow, users are still not quite happy,” Raghavan reportedly said.

Their search has been getting worse and worse for a long time before the Reddit protest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ironically, reddit's search feature was also trash. If I wanted to find something on reddit I just went to google and appended "reddit".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC, they cited google as a reason not to work on their own search, since that's what most of their userbase had got used to searching reddit with anyway by that point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit also cited 3rd party apps, bots and extensions as a reason to not develop many of the features on their own... and here we are now.

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