Responding to an employee that asked about the negative impacts of the irrelevant search results, Raghavan said that the team was, "iterating and building all this new stuff and yet somehow, users are still not quite happy".Īlphabet and Google CEO chimed in saying people did not want to see, "blue links" but wanted to see "comprehensive answers", which is where the Reddit-aided results come in.Īlso read | Google, IISc help make local apps in India more inclusive This seems to have had a domino effect on Google's Search engine with many users unhappy at not being able to gain more comprehensive information by adding the "Reddit" modifier to their searches.Īlso read | ‘Dal makhani again?’: Struggles in the life of a Google employee, summed up by Ankur Warikooīecause of the blackout, many of the results lost relevance and made more information inaccessible to lots of users.Īccording to a leaked audio of an all-hands meeting obtained by CNBC, Google's Senior Vice-President of Search, Prabhakar Raghavan admitted that people were, "not quite happy" with the results during the blackout.
Earlier this month, more than 3,000 subreddits went "dark" to protest Reddit's API changes that would force third-party apps like Apollo and Sync to pay for access to the platform's data APIs.
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