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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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Man, 2023 is wild. Seeing all of these social media platforms just try their dumbest solutions because they think they're bigger than life.
But you know, I really like this. I like the idea of any intentional or unintentional motive to clean up some search results. Google is beyond a lost cause to find anything useful since it just spits results in a scattershot fashion, but, it'll be interesting to see what people can find if Reddit has the balls to really sever itself from Google/Bing.
Maybe it might encourage people to actually deepen their research than lazily relying on half-baked takes and even more half-assed essays from reddit users who pretend they're smart.
It's true, the world is an odd place and has the wrong people making a lot of the decisions.
Not saying I would make the right ones either, mind, but I am aware I'm not an expert.... They don't seem to be.
Well, one can always search for data within a service's website itself, but yeah, Google is more convenient and also faster for that 🤔