Google Search To Include Social Media, Forums, etc

[Jer]

Social media's influence on society has to be one of the worst (non-war or disease) things to take place in the past century.

While a new tab isn't a big deal - they're also going to include in search results.

Google Search's new Perspectives tab will highlight forum and social media posts

Google's Search will soon include a tab or carousel of content sourced from social media and forums. If the potential benefits seem heavily outweighed by the obvious pitfalls, you're not alone.

www.engadget.com

 

[alarson]

I feel like search algorithms have been headed downward for a while. These days the best way to get an answer to a question is almost to make the search but then add "reddit" to the end

 

[ClonesFTW]

I'm very thankful social media was mostly not a thing when I was a teenager; I can't imagine broadcasting those thoughts and pictures to public record.

 

[Fitzy]

If we all start posting random porn keywords now, we can get CF a ton more traffic for advertising dollars once Google flips the switch.

 

[JM4CY]

If we all start posting random porn keywords now, we can get CF a ton more traffic for advertising dollars once Google flips the switch.

That’s a buttfuck of an idea.

 

[alarson]

If we all start posting random porn keywords now, we can get CF a ton more traffic for advertising dollars once Google flips the switch.

 

[somecyguy]

I feel like search algorithms have been headed downward for a while. These days the best way to get an answer to a question is almost to make the search but then add "reddit" to the end

They've spent so much time crowding the results with promoted advertising and fighting worthless landing pages, they didn't realize that the results themselves sucked.

 

[Trice]

I feel like search algorithms have been headed downward for a while. These days the best way to get an answer to a question is almost to make the search but then add "reddit" to the end

Google gets so bogged down with shtty, content-farm garbage and its own ads that its quality has definitely degraded over the years. Imagine another decade from now when AI makes the production of that garbage content literally limitless.

Reddit is good, and so are niche forums, like for appliance repair or something. To choose another example, I would guess every model of vehicle has its own support forum out there somewhere, just like it probably does a subreddit.

Learning how to search, identifying reputable sources, separating signal from noise, is a skill unto itself.

 

[Chitowncy]

Google gets so bogged down with shtty, content-farm garbage and its own ads that its quality has definitely degraded over the years. Imagine another decade from now when AI makes the production of that garbage content literally limitless.

Reddit is good, and so are niche forums, like for appliance repair or something. To choose another example, I would guess every model of vehicle has its own support forum out there somewhere, just like it probably does a subreddit.

Learning how to search, identifying reputable sources, separating signal from noise, is a skill unto itself.

This is what we need all of humanity to learn for the sake of our society.

 

[Jer]

This is what we need all of humanity to learn for the sake of our society.

ABSOLUTELY!

It's the age old problem of people using their preconceived notions, biases, and echo chambers vs seeking a better understanding or knowledge. What's sped up this dumbing down is that news is no longer made up of a series of facts (aka undisputable nuggets of information), but rather it's editorialized content written or spoken in a definitive way.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

If we all start posting random porn keywords now, we can get CF a ton more traffic for advertising dollars once Google flips the switch.

Stepmom accidentally shower.

 

[aauummm]

Playboy Hustler letters editor

 

[JP4CY]

Stepmom accidentally shower.

Playboy Hustler letters editor

 

[aauummm]

Yes, Penthouse, thank you! Playboy and Hustler just didn't quite seem like the right one as I posted!

 

[dtISU]

Stepmom accidentally shower.

Do these words work? Maybe I need to change my search procedure.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Google is getting worse and worse as they've gone from showing the information that you asked for to showing the information that they want you to see.

 

[Nor'MidWester]

I feel like search algorithms have been headed downward for a while. These days the best way to get an answer to a question is almost to make the search but then add "reddit" to the end

I've been doing that for years, if you have a question odds are someone else has already asked it on Reddit. Much better answers than whatever the top sponsored result on google would be otherwise

 

[Farnsworth]

Social media's influence on society has to be one of the worst (non-war or disease) things to take place in the past century.

While a new tab isn't a big deal - they're also going to include in search results.

Google Search's new Perspectives tab will highlight forum and social media posts

Google's Search will soon include a tab or carousel of content sourced from social media and forums. If the potential benefits seem heavily outweighed by the obvious pitfalls, you're not alone.

www.engadget.com

The way this preview text is written I thought it sounded kinda cool. I thought it meant that you could combine different things into one feed (CF, Twitter, etc)

Then I read the whole article and this is ******* nuts. The internet is getting scarier every day. I don't know why every company is going all in on AI.

 

[Farnsworth]

I've been doing that for years, if you have a question odds are someone else has already asked it on Reddit. Much better answers than whatever the top sponsored result on google would be otherwise

Let's just hope reddit doesn't go off the deep end and ruin a good thing

 

[CyPhallus]

When researching certain niche topics often times forums and reddit are the first and only worthwhile results, and it's been that way for as long as I can remember. How is this different?