> because the rest of Google’s results are so unusable
I would suggest the correct framing here is "the rest of the internet is unusable".
How else is Google supposed to guess you want a personal opinion from Reddit other than... typing it in the search query? Google is a search engine, not God.
If you want an answer from a particular source you're going to have to specify that, Google can't know if you want Wikipedia, or Quora, or a news article or a TikTok video or one of the other thousand pages that plenty of users might be interested in.
The internet has exploded in size, so has the diversity of legitimate sources, the search engines are hardly at fault.
I would suggest an even more correct framing as in "the rest of the internet as discoverable by Google is unusable".
On a more serious side, I think, we may need to have another dimension to web search, regarding the type of origin, namely "conversational" versus "commercial" (to be applied to both text and image search). Something like this would provide a more generalized solution to the problem, instead of pushing one of the more commonly known origins to become yet another monopoly.
I would suggest the correct framing here is "the rest of the internet is unusable".
How else is Google supposed to guess you want a personal opinion from Reddit other than... typing it in the search query? Google is a search engine, not God.
If you want an answer from a particular source you're going to have to specify that, Google can't know if you want Wikipedia, or Quora, or a news article or a TikTok video or one of the other thousand pages that plenty of users might be interested in.
The internet has exploded in size, so has the diversity of legitimate sources, the search engines are hardly at fault.