Seems like the Google’s Reddit partnership was more than just selling training data for AI.
Well, now we’re seeing the results. Reddit has richer results in search - including embedded comments + upvotes.
Coincidence? Think again…

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Google's Reddit partnership is resulting in richer search results with embedded comments and upvotes.

At this rate Google will basically become a traffic redirect to Reddit

100% true.
Most google result are so trash that i add <code>reddit</code> keyword to question always in advance.
AI low quality content noise is gonna make it even worse

You can also add <code>site:reddit.com</code> to your google search query to get only results from reddit. You are welcome =)

I’ve got into the habit of inputing my query with -site:reddit.com at the end. I’ve even added a kb shortcut. That said, depending on the query, Reddit has some great answers, just generally not for coding imho.

Most discussions take place in reddits than the old school independent websites forums.
Traffic to blog / websites would be an advertisements.
Traffic to reddit would be mostly fairer discussions.

wait… hasn’t this already been the case for a really long time?
But yes, I would agree in that now Gemini has just made it even worse. More so now that sites like <a href="http://udm14.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">udm14.com</a> have been created in order to alleviate the problem.