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Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months? (www.bandt.com.au)

submitted 8 months ago by DisOne@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 81 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's sort of become a bit of a meme to end every google question with 'reddit' to trick it into showing you an actual human response. I'm sure that's been good for traffic

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I’ve had to start limiting the date to pre-2023 to keep ai bs out of the results

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Just add before:2023 to your search query BTW.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 9 points 8 months ago

Thank you!

[–] ftothe3@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Add what? Didn't show up on mobile

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

add "before:2023" to your search query

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago

That's an excellent tip! I draw occasionally and finding references for animals is so much worse than it used to be.

[–] Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've heard some AI experts on Hard Fork suggest 80% of the Internet will be AI bot trash in 2 years.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Honestly wouldn’t surprise me. There’s already so much garbage when you google pretty much anything

[–] FleetingTit@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Bots produce traffic as well, though. So it's absolutely possible that traffic increased significantly. Just not in a meaningful way.