> Wait, how does Google fit in with it?

A lot of people ended up on Reddit because they learned that they could append site:Reddit.com to their searches to get better results. Reddit was never exceptionally well-managed or technically impressive, it was just accessible in search results in a way that platforms like Facebook and Twitter became increasingly hostile to in the mid-2010s.

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andai 5 days ago | parent [-]

What are the bad decisions that Google made then, in this context?

	▲	lurk2 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You didn’t used to have to append the operator to find what you were looking for. People only started doing it because the relevance of Google search results declined.