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Google’s gotten the message that what we really want to read is a dozen threads about the best BIFL jeans.
Google may be trying to reinvent the way we search in the future and expanding access to its impressive multisearch feature, but perhaps one of its most exciting announcements from today is a feature it’s calling “discussions and forums.” The idea is simple: whenever you do a Google search that it thinks could be an open-ended question, it’ll pop up a box full of results from “a variety of popular forums and online discussions across the web.” An example in its blog post shows results from Reddit, Quora, and Edmunds showing up when the user searches “best car for big family.”
It’s more or less a meme at this point that you have to add “reddit” to a search if you want to find actually useful results instead of a page full of ads and seemingly AI-generated SEO-hack articles; the Brave browser even basically built this feature into its search page earlier this year. The company actually more or less admits that it noticed people doing this in its blog post, saying: “we’ve heard from you that you want to see more of this content in Search, so we’ve been exploring new ways to make it easier to find.”
The company also says that the feature is a good way to get “first-hand advice, and to learn from people who have experience with something you’re interested in.” Personally, it’s nice to hear this reasoning. There are plenty of searches where you’re not looking for a...
Read Full Story: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/28/23377358/google-search-reddit-discussions-forums-results
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