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Google updates AI search to include 'expert advice' from Reddit and other web forums
BrikoXWhile citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/google-updates-ai-search-to-include-expert-advice-from-reddit-and-other-web-forums/
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Die4Ever
I would’ve been more amused if we get results like:
“I’m guessing this computer motherboard has 3 USB ports?” One reddit user says
Another reddit user says “ACTUALLY, there’s 6 USB ports and TWO of them are 3.2!”
The results would just argue with themselves because that’s Reddit in a nutshell for you.
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MinnesotaGoddamKill random reddit [TOKEN NOT FOUND CONTACT ADMIN] yourself, coward
Hasn’t their AI search always included “expert” advice from Reddit, like eating rocks, and putting glue on pizza?
I don’t know about expert but yes. Top results heavily influence the ai response and are listed as references and reddit is commonly high in results.
TheImpressiveXexpert advice
They asking an LLM for advice. So logically they want advice on being a dipshit. Where the biggest dipshits on the internet at? I mean besides wherever I am? It just makes sense to ask the reddits
OpenStars
Counterpoint: people used to be able to search for things. Now, SEO decides what the public is served by that process. Even though the people of Reddit offered the information freely, and also curated freely by volunteer moderators, it doesn’t serve the monetization interests to simply hand over that free information without an additional charge. (and here on the Threadiverse we’d rather argue about whether all people in Western civilizations should be killed) So yeah, an act of absolute desperation.
Expert advice? From Reddit? I’m not sure if I should laugh or scream my way into a padded cell.
finallymadeanaccountPerson: “I’d like to know more about algorithms”.
Goddit: “Your account has been suspended! Spez will be by to piss on your head shortly”.
Almacca
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funny, every reddit result i get on google is posts from 2-3 years ago. when people started leaving
Reddit killed forums and then killed itself.
A lot of difficult technical problems will just go unsolved I guess.
Didn’t we make our own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers?
Somehow normal folks do not feel welcomed in a place that routinely calls for the demise of all Western civilizations?
So no, we didn’t make a place that serves up a large amount of niche content.
Edit: then again, Reddit itself went and killed itself so… yeah I guess we are the most Reddit-like place left?
It’s literally all blatant bot posts now. Most popular subs from back then are unrecognizable
Yep and most of them couldn’t be any more obvious with their agenda pushing. It surprises me though that Reddit lacks exposees into the bots and it’s the only major social media without one (to my knowledge) while we have Cambridge Analytica for FB, foreign bot farms and dumbasses getting paid to ragebait on X, etc.
“Expert advice”
This is news? Google and reddit made the deal to do this at least a year ago.