Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the online forum site plans to launch an upgraded search experience in 2025 designed to help users navigate the social network and be able to answer “subjective hard, [and] interesting questions.”
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the online forum site plans to launch an upgraded search experience in 2025 designed to help users navigate the social network and be able to answer “subjective hard, [and] interesting questions.”
AI. Popular with investors. Not so popular with consumers.
While I agree it sucks, AI might be the only way to fix the dogshit dumpster fire that is reddit search. And now that reddit stopped Google from web scraping new posts it might soon be the only way to find recent information that way.
I thought Google and Reddit had a deal to allow Google to use Reddit’s data for training Gemini. Why would they stop Google from scraping new posts, and when did that happen?
Looks like you’re right, last summer reddit and Google made a $60 million deal to allow Google Search to continue crawling new posts, but they’re the only search engine with access to new posts thus far
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205244/reddit-blocking-search-engine-crawlers-ai-bot-google
Thanks. I read your comment and thought I missed something.
It would be hard to make Reddit search worse, so have at it
now with 3000% more fossil fuel usage!