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Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in August 2023. At the time of publishing, it was projected to have over 346 million visitors in April 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Meanwhile established sites with professional content are being pushed aside.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

The most professional content I've seen lately is things like a spaghetti recipe that explains the history of spaghetti, and my kids don't normally like spaghetti but they took seconds of this one because it's so good!

Now, let's talk about your choices in water here. You could go to a nearby spring and collect your own, but I find storebought water is just fine. You want to boil that water, which works best under high heat unless you want to wait forever!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Google has been killing those off for a while. Nowadays it's hard to find anything that isn't just the copy-pasted SEO bait non-articles covered in ads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

How can I find those more professional sites? I'd need some, as it's sometimes hard to find info on OS API, as "it's bad practice to not use Johnny's Janky and Bloated Everything Library (JJBEL), that still handles XInput controllers through the DirectInput API, but it also has other extras". I've had issues with RawInput under Windows (with that, in theory, I can use Xbox One/Series controllers to their fullest potential), and all I get is either SEO-ridden advertisements for existing libraries (which wouldn't be a problem if they didn't have massive problems), or tutorials for said libraries. Since I'm working with D, I have to interface to C calls, which wouldn't be a problem if they were documented properly and in an accessible way.

My own D native and less bloated SDL replacement's (iota) development got halted for getting null for device pointers no matter what, and with no proper instructions on how to resolve it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

I was googling gen ai transformers yesterday and most of the results were just heavily SEOd websites, where the first few paragraphs are just repeats of as many related keywords as possible to get high up in Google. Then the actual content I was looking for was usually garbage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Because there isn't any money in non-SEO optimized ads.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Making it extremely hard to actually find professional content because Reddit tends to cater to the lowest common denominator and most professional subs tend to corrupt over time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

to be fair most of the "professional" sites are just spam now. thats when it isnt entirely written by ai.