I may be naive, but I'm not sure where the hate is coming from in this thread. It's no secret that Google search result quality has rapidly and consistently diminished over the past few years, a common topic of discussion here on HN. Many folks, myself included, have developed a habit of appending "reddit" in Google searches by default. And reddit's native search, on the other hand, is just abysmal. If this partnership results in finding quality and timely content in reddit faster, then I'm all for it. Net positive IMO.
The Reddit sub blackouts really caught me off guard. Made me reflect on how crazy it is that a substantial portion of public knowledge and discourse over the past decade has occurred there. And this information is locked up under the control of Reddit. And we gave it to them(the information and the control).<p>Edit: It would be nice if there were a Wikipedia model equivalent to Reddit. A non-profit driven site for public discourse and discussion.
This seems to have been posted the same time as Reddit released their S-1 on going public: <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-files-registration-statement-for-proposed-initial-public-offering" rel="nofollow">https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-files-registration-sta...</a>
Reddit front page and top comments appears to be creepily hand curated by the DNC/State Dept. Country is completey divided on politics but somehow every single top political post and comment is pro-establishment.
Totally get it, shrewd business decision to monetize their content like this, but as a user this kind of stuff sucks. Used to be you could string together all sorts of cool little bots or automated workflows with reddit/twitter and whatnot, and now APIs are so closed off there isn't much room to experiment with that kind of thing. And it feels like just the beginning, as AI becomes more ubiquitous the roadblocks needed to protect genuine human engagement will become more onerous. Imagine the entire internet being Discord, with it's unsearchable silos, forever.
Between them Reddit and Macrumors have almost all the useful public information for macOS users, music producers, video creators, colourists. Handing Google the keys to Reddit will be trouble. I'm not quite sure what kind of trouble, but deep trouble.<p>The SEO spamslaught which will start now will be part of the issue, Google will also work to make visible on Reddit what they like and make invisible what they don't like. Money talks and Reddit was already big on censorship. A more independent public space is what we need, not a more moderated and beholden prison yard.
It's concerning to see that the site that was once the absolute paragon of Internet freedom going down this path. Reddit has gone from the shining start of the Internet to a hollow, slowly rotting husk.
Just say no to your voice, your content, your time, and your efforts being hoovered up into some company's commercial LLMs and then regurgitated back out as "novel" information.<p>I left Reddit the moment they screwed over third-party developers and never looked back. Now I'm even happier to avoid fueling their data aspirations.
My thoughts are this has to do with Google shutting down 3rd party cookies. A deal might have been made between the two juggernauts after both putting up their own respective "walls".
So Google will just prioritize site:reddit.com content now? Doesn't sound quite "open" or "authentic" as Google mentions on their blog post.
Imagine being in Google's AI space and thinking to yourself<p>"You know what we need more of? Unhinged, depraved, often inane arguments from the internet"<p>"Yes that will work better"