Wonder how good Google is feeling about that 60 million dollar deal to scrape all of Reddits wisdom
I’d imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.
Reddit wisdom:
“This”
“Bacon”
“OK, boomer”
pun thread 37 levels deep
How long before the AI answer to every question is simply “username checks out”? :-P
Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!
Double edit: wow, this is my top comment??
Triple edit: omg thank you all for the (totally not useless) awards!!
Narwhal
I wonder how Reddit investors are feeling when they find out even Google couldn’t pull something valuable out of the Reddit data
It’s never too late to take up shitposting on LinkedIn.
You mean… LinkedIn? If there’s any site that perfects the shitpost, it’s LinkedIn. Everyone is bullshitting their pants off there.
Ah, LinkedIn, exactly where I want to get nuanced answers to weird questions from.
Somehow this is worse than Reddit. Sure Reddit isn’t good, but at least Reddit was sane enough to understand concepts like ‘working too much is deeply unhealthy both physically and mentally’ and ‘corporations should not hold absolute power’
at least Reddit was sane enough
That’s the issue, a veneer of anonymity. These fucking wagies lost any sense of fear and saying the truth. Disgusting.
“wagies”?
Losers who have to work for money in order to survive
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The SEO marketing platform analyzed 100,000 keywords in June and found Reddit was no longer in the top 10 linked domains in Google’s AI Overviews.
One incident included when it told a user to put glue on pizza to keep the cheese intact — a suggestion that seems to have been based on a Reddit comment more than a decade ago.
SE Ranking’s study also shows that LinkedIn, Wikipedia, and YouTube are in third, fourth, and sixth positions of the top 10 linked domains, respectively.
The SEO tool provider carried out a similar study in February before Google rolled out the AI feature to the public, which found that the overviews included many snippets from forums Reddit and Quora.
Google showed significantly fewer AI Overviews, previously called SGE (Search Generative Experience), in the June study than it did in February.
Liz Reid, the Search VP, addressed the pizza glue fiasco at a recent all-hands meeting, according to audio obtained by CNBC, saying the company would not “hold back features” if there were “occasional problems.”
The original article contains 333 words, the summary contains 174 words. Saved 48%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
“wait what if someone asks a question and Google AI quickly directs that person to the most relevant resources. Now wouldn’t that be a great innovation.”
-Some shareholder or CEO probably
