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vivaenmiriana t1_jbepn39 wrote

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.

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Dragoniel t1_jberlvn wrote

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.

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