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Is Reddit a better search engine than Google?

Fast Company: “A new story anticipating the decline and fall of Google Search comes out about every month, but a blog post Tuesday, called “Google Search is Dying” by the blogger DKB was different. The blog shot up to the top of Hacker News on Tuesday, and is already the 11th most upvoted post on Hacker News of all time, with more than 1,500 comments. The core argument is that many people have become so disappointed in—or distrustful of—good old Google search results that they now append the term “reddit” to the end of their queries. So instead of searching the world of information that Google and its web-crawler bots see, you get information and links from the world of things that have been discussed in Reddit land, which are a lot. “Why are people searching Reddit specifically?” the blog post reads. “The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust.”….[Note – please use DuckDuckGo, and include other sites you trust in your searches, be they Subreddits, Wikipedia, or other sites. And please review search results below the fold….don’t just look at the first 5 or 10…keep reviewing and refining narrowing your searches based on what you identify as relevant. Also, please use search engines within trusted databases and sites [ex.: USA.gov.]

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