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> Reddit changed the way people interacted online and how online content was aggregated, people often append “reddit” to their google results to get higher quality content.

This was not a good thing, and not intentional but a consequence of the SEO-driven commercialization of the web, walled gardens and such. Reddit didn't set out to 'change how online content is aggregated'. It's not necessarily higher quality content than before either, just the largest human place left.

Not being in the US, can someone explain to me what did Doordash change about delivery? I all see is these crazy chats with drivers when food goes missing.

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Previously delivery drivers were hired for and delivery offered on a per restaurant basis. We had couriers for general delivery but they were niche specialty providers. Doordash separated delivery from the restaurants and provided a means of tapping into their market. See also Instacart.

What is new about it though? This model is common, Takeaway.com (EU) was founded in the year 2000.

IIRC Instacart's disruptive idea was to deliver groceries, not restaurant orders, they pivoted later to survive.

Doordash's disruptive idea was to entirely capture the experience of ordering from the restaurants, up to and including registering websites for the restaurants and pretending like they had an agreement with each restaurant on their listing. At one point if you placed a Doordash order there were some restaurants they would just place a call to and then have a driver pick up from there like it was an individual order.

This is precisely what Takeaway / Thuisbezorgd does, except in a fully legal way. It's also how online delivery services operate in South America, most small restaurants never had a website or their own delivery (except for pizza places). Maybe it was disruptive in the context of the USA.

Or, maybe it comes down to simply having a ton of funding to operate at a loss until you clear out the entire market for yourself? Similar to what Uber did.

The original post I replied asked specifically about the US. Living primarily in the US I've never heard of takeaway.com though from living in the UK the lingo is familiar.

You're not wrong that a lot of company growth is fueled by VCs subsidizing to try and create effective monopoly. So too that many companies use legal gray areas (or not so gray) to try and further bolster competitive advantage.

Also I would honestly rather add "type:forum" to my searches and search all forums rather than just Reddit. The problem is that Google doesn't seem to provide a way to do this.

I do an equivalent thing in Kagi using lenses. Although I have to manually define which forums to include.

Before searching extra results on reddit, we had yahoo LOL

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