Reddit is currently a good proxy because the best recommendations on Reddit for a question are upvoted reasonably democratically by the type of people you’d trust. For the time being the gamification of Reddit isn’t bad enough to be an issue here.
But that’s just a matter of time. As more and more people start using Reddit as the most authentic source of dependable information, folks are gonna start gaming that to the core as well, basically this is going to be a game like the Red Queen.
One possibility is that the search engine itself starts becoming like Reddit maybe? They clearly know what result you’re clicking, they could start making user similarities (or ask you for an explicit list of your peers) to find similar users and rank results based on what people like you click. Obviously google can do it easier since it knows YOu. But even DDG maybe able to do something like user curation or site blacklisting (and have popular lists like exist for tracking avoidance that you can subscribe to). This is the only solution IMO.
For example for any coding related search I’d be happy to rid of every top 10 result in google except SO. All the rest is garbage.
Maybe there’s also an upvote button. But the score is not universal but personalized to you based on votes from people you actually might trust.
Content written by humans has been moving to walled gardens like Facebook, Twitter, tiktok, Reddit.
Most of these don’t let google index them properly, as they would prefer uses create an account on their site and use their own search.
So? The blast radius of those issues doesn't fully spillover into the non-political forums.
You want to know which of two different products in a particular class is better? /r/<productclass> won't be filled with political or culture-based proselytising.
Looking to buy a new laptop/car/power-tool/chair? Good advice is to be found on reddit and you may never even see a single off-topic discussion in your search.
I couldn't agree more which is why we recently launched our Onebox product bringing you forum content directly inline with your search results.
https://neeva.com/blog/introducing-neeva-onebox-community-co...
One question: why are there no dates under results? Even for articles where the date is near the top. This is something I rely on heavily to filter out the older results. To provide an example, I searched for "keychron k2v2" and found this article from Sep 26, 2020 (https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/26/review-the-keychr...). I then filtered to show me only results from the last year, and this result still popped up. This suggests the Neeva engine doesn't detect dates at all.
We're actively working on this!
We should have significantly better coverage for dates in results in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!
Both Google and DDG already do that, you just format the query correctly. Once you are an expert in a field you will begin to understand how bad reddit is for information.
https://search.brave.com/goggles?goggles_id=https%3A%2F%2Fra...
Jokes aside I think fixing the SEO hacking as the author mentions would go the longest way. It's really bad for stack overflow posts. When I Google a programming error the first few results are copy cat sites with the exact Stack Overflow questions and replies. I don't understand how SEO has evolved to favor that over the actual, more popular, stack overflow page.