A new story anticipating the decline and fall of Google Search comes out about every month, but a blog post Tuesday, called “Google Search is Dying” by the blogger DKB was different. The blog shot up to the top of Hacker News on Tuesday, and is already the 11th most upvoted post on Hacker News of all time, with more than 1,500 comments.
The core argument is that many people have become so disappointed in—or distrustful of—good old Google search results that they now append the term “reddit” to the end of their queries. So instead of searching the world of information that Google and its web crawler bots see, you get information and links from the world of things that have been discussed in Reddit land, which is a lot. “Why are people searching Reddit specifically?” the blog post reads. “The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust.”
Everyone thought they were the only person who added "reddit" to their google searches. We've all been doing it for a while now. https://t.co/KQHNtUA3fO
— dkb (@dkb868) February 15, 2022
“There have been many posts complaining about Google search quality in the last few months especially,” DKB told Fast Company via DM on Twitter. His real name is Dmitri Kyle Brereton, and he’s a 26-year-old software engineer who works at the recruiting platform Gem. “I think what made this post different, and the reason I wrote it, is that everyone was talking...
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