this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
136 points (91.5% liked)

Technology

59709 readers
1839 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
136
Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
53 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in August 2023. At the time of publishing, it was projected to have over 346 million visitors in April 2024.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just in time to not be able to see anything on Reddit without signing in. And I'm sure companies won't figure out how to astroturf even more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

reddit.com/r/somesub/comments/123456/some_random_post?share=1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm suggesting Reddit could implement a Quora style ?share=1 at the end of the URL as what comes up in Google results. This is why you can click a Quora google result and get an answer, but then clicking any other question/thread brings up an undismissable prompt for you to sign up for an account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Could you then bypass the quora login prompt with a user script that appends ?share=1 to every page?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I haven't used it in a while but in the past you could.