We recently covered some of Google’s rationale for ranking forums like Reddit and Quora well in our Discussions and Forums box for many queries. Just a few days ago, I told you a story about how I was saddened to see Google ranking dangerous and potentially harmful forum threads for health-related queries.
Danny Sullivan, Google’s head of search, posted a comment on Lilly Ray’s LinkedIn post defending her comments on the subject. I’m sure many people haven’t seen it, so I’ll share everything here.
I’ll catch up on this. I’m mainly responding to what you brought up, so for this part:
“Their response is usually some version. We’ve received a lot of feedback that users like Reddit’s results and are adding Reddit to the end of many of their queries.”
That’s…not what I said. He didn’t always say he only shows Reddit content because users like it. I didn’t say anything about…
