TWO YEARS LATER: Perspectives will be shut down ...

If people are looking for alternatives that won't be shut down, you... recommend they look to Google!? Ahahahahaha!

How long until Google gives up and shuts it down? Place yer bets!!!

Google, a company you can trust. A company that thought the phrase ‘Don’t be evil’ didn’t fit anymore.

Neat, another service that Google will inexplicably kill in anywhere from 6 months to five years time.

I give it a year before it's shut down. This is Google, after all.

Google does not really offer a space where people can come together to create communities or discussion threads. However, with the introduction of Perspectives, it may do so later.

So—despite the dumbass title (article's fault, not OP's)—explicitly not an alternative to Reddit, where literally the whole point is to create communities and discussion threads.

This will be saving you typing in +reddit +stackspace on searches. Still the same results.

This just sounds like Google with extra steps.

Thanks I hate it.

Ah yes, cause the problem by promoting SEO websites with machine generated content, then sell the solution! Splendid!

A newer way to harvest data for them, I’m sure.

Invent the problem, then sell the solution.

Just fix search that you intentionally broke so that it returns all relevant results, inhumane cowards.

I would trust a google product any further than I could throw a single one of their servers. Well except for gmail. That one has been around a while.

This sounds like they're copying Brave Discussions, which is basically just giving a little box with only reddit results near the top.

It's definitely not an alternative to reddit or even its own platform. It sounds like just another conditional algorithm update, but I haven't seen it yet.

This implies other feeds from google arent from humans.

Great, now 4chan can turn search results racist too.

... And they killed it. It's dead.

Great, now 4chan can turn search results racist too.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I kinda doubt that this is likely to be killed off. It's not it's own platform like Reddit, it just takes content that's more likely to be made by people from websites like Reddit, blogs, and other social media platforms and puts it all in one place.
But who knows with Google.

It's crazy they haven't done this years ago. Hopefully it doesn't go anywhere and as pointless as Google plus or buzz or whatever