To that end, Google recently unveiled a new feature called Perspectives, which aims to surface discussion forums and videos from various social media platforms, including TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and Quora.

Google used to have this years ago. It was just a search toggle called "discussions" and it would prioritize search results from forums, comments, reddit, etc. It was extremely useful to find real information while avoiding SEO blogspam ad platforms, which is why they removed it in the first place.

Exactly! The protesters are winning. The protest didn't fizz out, it simply evolved.

They are wrong, now I either don't, or I specifically exclude it.

It'll have to be tested, but I'm not sure Perspectives will do what the 'reddit' query does for many people. I can only speak for myself, but I typically would add 'reddit' to searches because I was looking for thorough information on a subject, and I was certain there would be some random subreddit out there full of experts and enthusiasts on that specific niche topic. I don't want social media or influencer content, I want content from people with extremely deep knowledge about very specific things.

Reddit is doing a good job of that on its own.

I mean, Reddit's done a good job of ending that. How long before it becomes lemmy or kbin

access content published by posters on discussion boards, Q&A websites, and social media platforms [...] Google also offers more details about the content producers, such as their names, profile pictures, and their popularity.

Yeah, I really care about how popular this the person is, not about whether they're popular bc they speak out their ass about things they have no right speaking about. I wonder if we'll at least get a "this was/wasn't helpful" button, as those are never biased, either. /eyeroll