That’s not a Google problem. That’s a problem with the Internet.
Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that one writer’s perspective.
Honestly the barrier to entry for a blog is very low and the benefit isn’t very high unless you spam it with ads, so who is exactly taking the time to make a blog?
Google created the SEO mess that makes non-redddit sites undesirable for most searches.
The high quality sites ARE reddit and the like.
No normal person is going to spend the time to make and maintain a blog, especially if it doesn’t make them any money unless they spam it with ads.
That also describes each individual Reddit comment. Reddit's magic is that it places them all next to one another for easy comparison.
This has nothing to do with a writer's perspective but Google's inability to address basic indexing issues like understanding whether the page is actually useful in a sense that it explains the root cause of the problem, or does it say shit like "this has been answered already, just search for it".
Since they started to roll out this update I am constantly running into either:
- Useless Reddit posts with 1/2 comments.
- Useless forum posts that are locked behind registration.
It's not that there's a problem with these sites inherently, the problem is that Google is promoting pages that basic NLP could tell you is worthless because it doesn't actually provide an answer - it's a question in of itself.
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E: I also know how to downvote and not make a comment. It doesn't exactly invalidate what I said.
More realisticly you're searching for "list folder in linux $CAVEAT_A $CONTEXT_B" and all the results are useless because one of the key words are silently dropped for each ad filled auto-generated result.
Then you'll search for "how to A in B?" And all the results are how to do the opposite ("how to B in A"). Where both directions are logical but order means something different.