Google updates AI search to include 'expert advice' from Reddit and other web forums

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/google-updates-ai-search-to-include-expert-advice-from-reddit-and-other-web-forums/

While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/google-updates-ai-search-to-include-expert-advice-from-reddit-and-other-web-forums/

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funny, every reddit result i get on google is posts from 2-3 years ago. when people started leaving

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Reddit killed forums and then killed itself.

A lot of difficult technical problems will just go unsolved I guess.

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Didn’t we make our own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers?

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Somehow normal folks do not feel welcomed in a place that routinely calls for the demise of all Western civilizations?

So no, we didn’t make a place that serves up a large amount of niche content.

Edit: then again, Reddit itself went and killed itself so… yeah I guess we are the most Reddit-like place left?

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It’s literally all blatant bot posts now. Most popular subs from back then are unrecognizable

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Yep and most of them couldn’t be any more obvious with their agenda pushing. It surprises me though that Reddit lacks exposees into the bots and it’s the only major social media without one (to my knowledge) while we have Cambridge Analytica for FB, foreign bot farms and dumbasses getting paid to ragebait on X, etc.

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This is news? Google and reddit made the deal to do this at least a year ago.

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