Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
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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.

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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It’s really frustrating how much blatantly AI-written shit is at the top of every Google search nowadays.

Like, you Google “how to install a door” and you find an article that’s like

“Here’s how you install a door. Installing a door is really easy when you know how This guide will tell you how to install a door on ten easy steps. The first step in installing your door is to pick a door at the store.” It repeats the title of the article everyother damn sentence, and takes FOREVER to get to a useful point. And sometimes they give flat out incorrect advice.

Then, you check the urland it’s something like “techbuiz.com” and you’ve never even heard of this shit before, why the hellisit the top indexed result?

This isn’t a problem to do with the reddit blackout at all, it’s the enshittification of Google algorithm. They sell those top slots to the highest bidder, it’s no longer about who actually has relevant information about the thing you searched for, it’s about who had just enough matching keywords AND gave Google money to put up top.

Of course Google blames other sites, like reddit. It makes up all kinds of bullshit to obfuscate what they are doing, and sin e they have a proprietary algorithm nobody can prove that they are doing what I described above. But it’s so blatantly obvious that they are that it’s nearly insulting that they keep pretending they aren’t.

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Random vaguely relevant confession: Every time I see “RDR2,” I misread it as R2D2.

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