Reddit alternative? Google introduces Perspectives, a search feed with results from humans
Reddit alternative? Google introduces Perspectives, a search feed with results from humans
Google is trying something new on the search feed
TWO YEARS LATER: Perspectives will be shut down ...
Two years is too generous. 6 months later unofficially dropped support, 1 year later introduce some stupid redesign and some functionality that lowers user experience, and then 2 years later is merged with some other random Google service.
2 years later... "Good news! Perspective has now been organically merged with Google Search"
How long until Google gives up and shuts it down? Place yer bets!!!
I bet 3 upvotes and one Mastodon follow, it’s killed off in less then 5 years
I’ll be your third upvote. For less than 3.
I knew this was going to be the top comment and I'm hereffor it!
About tree fiddy
If people are looking for alternatives that won't be shut down, you... recommend they look to Google!? Ahahahahaha!
Seriously, the graveyard is pretty extensive: https://killedbygoogle.com/
And they won't stop until they kill killedbygoogle by having it run out of storage space.
Guys we swear this time is different. We are totally going to stick with it
"Google, thanks for inviting us all to the launch of perspectives! What are your goals with this new platform?"
"Perspectives? Perspectives on what? Who are you people? how did you get in here? Would you like to hear more about our new weekly meat-delivery service?"
"oh. . . . Uhm, sure. . . . Where is your product sourced from?"
"where is what sourced from?"
It's real this time time, gais, promisssss
gigglesnort
Neat, another service that Google will inexplicably kill in anywhere from 6 months to five years time.
And hiring people up to the last second. Last few hires probably barely have time to sell their old apartment and pack their families on the plane to California before being laid off.
Google, a company you can trust. A company that thought the phrase ‘Don’t be evil’ didn’t fit anymore.
It's still in their code of conduct, though. Got moved to the bottom.
Well yeah, if they were truly going to follow the "don't be evil" motto they'd have to give up capitalism, which ain't gonna happen.
I give it a year before it's shut down. This is Google, after all.
!remindme 1 yr
oh wait
@artisanrox @lostwonder @Thalestr Well someone needs to build this ASAP. I miss it.
Man, deleting my reminders felt almost as final as deleting the account itself
Start the clock. https://gcemetery.co/google-product-lifespan/
It'll be folded into some sort of AI thingy within a year, for sure.
AI is this year's blockchain.
Google does not really offer a space where people can come together to create communities or discussion threads. However, with the introduction of Perspectives, it may do so later.
So—despite the dumbass title (article's fault, not OP's)—explicitly not an alternative to Reddit, where literally the whole point is to create communities and discussion threads.
I do love the "it may do so later" part. It reads like the journalist was writing this via speech-to-text from the shower, just rambling off whatever thoughts came to mind.
This just sounds like Google with extra steps.
This will be saving you typing in +reddit +stackspace on searches. Still the same results.
Wish they'd include a -pinterest option.
-site:pinterest.*seems to work for me.
Thanks I hate it.
Ah yes, cause the problem by promoting SEO websites with machine generated content, then sell the solution! Splendid!
Microsoft Antivirus, second generation.
Invent the problem, then sell the solution.
Just fix search that you intentionally broke so that it returns all relevant results, inhumane cowards.
A newer way to harvest data for them, I’m sure.
I maintain the only reason Google ever shut any product down was because they weren't able to extract useful data from it fast enough. It's the only reason any of their products exist.
Disagree
For many of the services they shut down, they accomplished what they wanted.
Sometimes, the purpose isn't to create a shiny new product people enjoy and will pay for
Sometimes, the purpose is to create competition for a product you don't like, make sure they fail by having a decent competing offering, and then shutting the offering down when the threat of competition has passed
I would trust a google product any further than I could throw a single one of their servers. Well except for gmail. That one has been around a while.
I gave up on gmail a couple years ago too. It was a LOT of work to migrate but there have been several stories since that make me glad I did it. Plus I now my gmail is nothing but spam and it's satisfyingly like having a hotmail account just for spam 20 years ago.
Well I can’t “give up” on gmail. I work for a university and they use it. But to say gmail was a zillion times better than groupwise is an understatement.
Great, now 4chan can turn search results racist too.
Haha, wonder what Google will do.
This sounds like they're copying Brave Discussions, which is basically just giving a little box with only reddit results near the top.
It's definitely not an alternative to reddit or even its own platform. It sounds like just another conditional algorithm update, but I haven't seen it yet.
This implies other feeds from google arent from humans.
Every time i search for something nowadays, the first results i get are always AI-generated articles that regurgitate other articles in the least useful and uninformative way as possible in an effort to show you ads. Robosites (a word i just came up with) and SEO have ruined Google.
... And they killed it. It's dead.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I kinda doubt that this is likely to be killed off. It's not it's own platform like Reddit, it just takes content that's more likely to be made by people from websites like Reddit, blogs, and other social media platforms and puts it all in one place.
But who knows with Google.That's how I read it too. I guess there is a legitimate concern that Google is aiming to be the aggregated "front page of the internet" by providing the front end that people use to interact with the content they link to, but we shall see.
ah, like yahoo early 2000s!
It's crazy they haven't done this years ago. Hopefully it doesn't go anywhere and as pointless as Google plus or buzz or whatever
This is the awesomest thing I've seen since Google Wave!
Great, now 4chan can turn search results racist too.
if they add support for forums I might even consider using it, but if it's just reddit, twitter, tiktok or whatever then it's not really all that useful
Good - the more traffic taken away from Reddit, the better in my opinion.
The majority of people that use Google don't actually click through to the sources to read more, so if discussions are made more accessible directly in the search results, Reddit will likely notice the impact on their ad impressions
as much as i hate reddit as a corp, going to google is never a better alternative
Seems more like an alternative to TikTok no?
They’ll kill it in 3…2….
I’ll stick with Kbin
Aaaaand... It's gone...
These are just Lenses or whatever, smaller search engines had them for ages. I'm still waiting for DuckDuckGo to add them, strange that even Google was faster than them