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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] Wolfram 66 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I didn't realize how important Reddit was to get quality results from Google. Without Reddit almost the whole 1st page is just SEO optimized sites. It's just ironic that alternate search engines are better than Google now.

[–] achensherd 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used Bing to find a parts diagram for my car after repeatedly failing to do so with Google. I’m sure I could’ve eventually found it with Google using the correct combination of operators and such, but at that point why bother.

[–] ConTheLibrarian 22 points 2 years ago

What's even more annoying than google populating half the first page with ads is that the links don't even work half the time these days.

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