Google Says the Reddit Blackout Made Search Worse
Google Says the Reddit Blackout Made Search Worse
A senior Google VP said earlier this month that Google users who couldn't add 'Reddit' to their queries were 'not quite happy' following the protest.
Google’s senior vice president of Search Prabhakar Raghavan claimed at a company all-hands meeting earlier this month that Google users were “not quite happy” with the search engine following the blackout.
The Reddit Blackout has resulted in large growth for fediverse alternatives Lemmy & Kbin, there are some other platforms (not fediverse) that have also seen sharp growth.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Normally I'd post something like this in a tech/web type community, which we don't yet have locally here on Aussie.Zone so I figured "meta" might be a suitable spot.
Na, good read! Cheers.