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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It would be cheaper for google to just buy reddit, remove the adds and open the api's again.

Having relevent search results is priceless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reddit.com appears on KilledByGoogle.com next year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Knowing google they would buy it, release a big roadmap of plans for the website and then shut it down the next day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

remove the adds

lol, this is google we're talking about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More realistic is having to watch 2 unskippable 15 second ads before you can see the post

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This would be low-key be a great way to have your very own sweet sweet human contributed ML-data pipeline, and a pretty high quality community moderated one at that. Give access to 3rd party devs and lock all competing ML techs out. [r word] is valued at $10 billion (fucking lol) but I bet that gutless scumbag sp*z would fold for less than 10% of that if he has more than two braincells to rub together.

Big part of me hopes Google's myopic corporatised ass never sees the opportunity and we rebuild the mf free internet from here on out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

LOL, Google already did that once, literally two decades ago. Remember Google Groups?

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2800078/google-acquires-usenet-archive-from-deja-com.html

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if he has more than two braincells to rub together.

That's a big "if"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Eh, if you only have two braincells, you aren't capable of narcissism. Spez's problem isn't lack of braincells in general but lacking braincells in empathy, critical thinking and whichever brain part gives rise to theory of mind.