Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months?

DisOne@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 395 points – ‘Quality Of Google Search Crashed’ – Concerns As Reddit’s Traffic Nearly Quadruples In Six Months
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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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It's sort of become a bit of a meme to end every google question with 'reddit' to trick it into showing you an actual human response. I'm sure that's been good for traffic

I’ve had to start limiting the date to pre-2023 to keep ai bs out of the results

That's an excellent tip! I draw occasionally and finding references for animals is so much worse than it used to be.

I've heard some AI experts on Hard Fork suggest 80% of the Internet will be AI bot trash in 2 years.

Honestly wouldn’t surprise me. There’s already so much garbage when you google pretty much anything

Bots produce traffic as well, though. So it's absolutely possible that traffic increased significantly. Just not in a meaningful way.