Essentially saying that due to seo spam and commercialization, Google is now useless for search and more and more people do site:reddit.com.

I think it’s a little extreme but agree generally.

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    3 years ago

    I ususally add “reddit” to my search terms when I’m looking for recommendations. At least I know I’m getting crowd sourced opinions and not a stupid ranked list where every company paid for their product to be on it…

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      3 years ago

      Neeva has this handy feature that lets you prioritize or deprioritze sites in all your searches, I’ve just added Reddit to the list.

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        3 years ago

        Nah, I was right there with you. It’s so much better to get recommendations from a hobby/enthusiast subreddit than click bait articles.

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          3 years ago

          depends on the hobby. there is a lot of shit that’s locked into facebook groups for certain hobbies and the reddit comments are usually pretty much all over the place with contradicting information.

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        3 years ago

        You can get X to do Y for Z. Statement works for literally every thing in life.

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          3 years ago

          Since people already know Amazon reviews are doctored, the next logical step would probably be to pay them to post on reddit. I don’t know how your XYZ argument goes against that.

          You can also use a subject S, verb V and object O to build English sentences, which works for figuratively any thing in life.