Dragoniel t1_jbdvvkk wrote on March 8, 2023 at 9:58 AM

Reply to comment by Hrmbee in How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat by BronzeHeart92

> Lots of people use Google to find things on Reddit, which is often used as a criticism of Google’s search quality. I wanted to know if Pali thinks Google is vulnerable in search, if Reddit can become a primary search engine for people, and most importantly, what he took from Google’s culture and what he left behind in organizing Reddit’s product team.

That paragraph makes no sense. Google is used to search for things on Reddit, because Reddit's own search is useless. How is that criticism for Google...? Nothing that Reddit will ever do to its search will be able to square up to Google's tools. There's no way in hell.

vivaenmiriana t1_jbepn39 wrote on March 8, 2023 at 2:54 PM

Spitballing

Maybe because people arent satisfied with the google results.

Googling "reddit" my car is making x noise can get people a lot farther than straight my car is making x noise.

Imo its the google equivalent of pressing 0 to talk to a real person.

Dragoniel t1_jberlvn wrote on March 8, 2023 at 3:08 PM

While that is absolutely true, in my opinion it has a lot more to do with reddit being the platform where this information actually exists in a readable form, rather than Google being bad at finding other places. Random forums not organized in to subreddits to focus knowledgeable people in to particular field, where they are more likely to see and respond to any given problem with some form of qualification, not using upvote/downvote system to get an idea how much bullshit a given reply has and thread layering to actually get to all relevant responses to any given comment quickly are always incomparably worse than information found on reddit. There's a good reason we are talking here right now.