The Verge shows how Google search is useless
theverge.com
The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google.
I love a good, informative troll.
You are viewing a single comment
Anything post-2022, and probably post-2020, is suspect on Reddit because it became abundantly clear how steerable it was and how easy to generate sales as long as you didn't do anything too "suspicious". Current 'ad guides' tell advertisers not to link things because just saying the name reads as more authentic.
Before that it was legitimately people discussing, e.g., the best flashlight for x-y-z purposes. But a decent amount of old stuff has been gutted by people deleting their posts/accounts.
After January 2015 it was a downhill slalom.
You weren't around for the 2016 presidential elections.
Politics on Reddit has always been shit. Product reviews and recommendations were good. How-to's and troubleshootings that don't fit on stackoverflow are still good.