Google Search Is Dying

Re:Google Search Is Dying by mstipetic on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:58AM (#35039571)

I never understood how Reddit isn’t an advertising powerhouse. Their users literally voluntarily segregate by interest, but the proper tech never got built out. Last I checked they integrated a 3rd party solution for that.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by oblio on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:11AM (#35039672)

If you look at their software dev efforts it should be painfully obvious why they're not a powerhouse of anything :-)

They had great product-market fit early on, were boosted by YN, and inertia is a huge thing.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by LewisVerstappen on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:16AM (#35039715)

Yeah, it's an absurdly poorly managed company.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by bigbacaloa on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:55AM (#35040405)

Which is why it's still useful.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by petesergeant on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:08AM (#35039655)

I would guess they have a huge problem with ad blocking

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by margorczynski on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:21AM (#35040615)

Especially that places like Reddit attract more "tech-savvy" people who have a high amount of ad block users. Naive web ads on places like that or e.g. Ars Technica is tricky most probably.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by hbn on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:58PM (#35044753)

I think that was the case a few years back, but these days a lot of casual users are accessing it through the official app and getting served tons of ads.

It was a weird moment seeing a reddit comment where someone referred to the site as "this app." Made me feel old.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by polski-g on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:33AM (#35042211)

They need to make the ads and relevant HTML look identical to "real" posts so adblocking doesn't work

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by brookst on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:40AM (#35043093)

This devaluing content to humans, thus breaking what makes the site good.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by LegitShady on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:06AM (#35040041)

reddit became massive overnight because digg imploded. digg imploded because they tried to turn into an advertising powerhouse.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by ilyt on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:54AM (#35041693)

I remember how their idea of paid ad was just a reddit post you can comment on.

Which was kinda cool from user side but advertisers didn't like people taking piss on them in the comments so they undoed it

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