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Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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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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[–] dysorder 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Google should just buy Reddit so they can shut them down six months later.

[–] Dezzillion 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Months? You mean weeks.

[–] dox 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you saying they were going to... regReddit?

[–] Pulsar 23 points 1 year ago

First they will rename it few times, Reddit+, RedditOut, RedditWave then merge it will Google Groups wait for a year and then pull the plug.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I actually think Google has a long term plan to buyout Reddit. Google Groups failed miserably several years ago, so Google would LOVE to own a mature social media platform.

The former, despised owner gets to cash out. And Forbes and WSJ will write glowing articles about how Google "saved" Reddit. (Narrator: what's left of Reddit will get unbelievably sh*tty. And then it will die, like Google Groups).