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One of the many ways Google has desperately tried to maintain the usefulness of its increasingly shoddy core search product is to place Reddit threads on as many search results pages as possible — a reaction, one assumes, to the way how users responded to Google. The search decline when pinning the word “Reddit” in your search queries. Do this, of course, and you'll focus on insights from real people rather than whatever garbage the Google Search algorithm decides to throw at you.
People do this also because Reddit itself is arguably a mess for the average person to sift through when they're trying to find information – whether they're looking for the best, latest news about that, or what real people are saying about, for example, products that the user want to buy. Fortunately, there is a much simpler and, more importantly, cleaner way to find what you're looking for on Reddit among all the interesting posts and comments on the site, and it's a tool called GigaBrain.
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Similar to how the new AI-powered search tool Perplexity brings order to the chaos of Google Search, GigaBrain not only helps you quickly find the best comments and communities on Reddit in a clean, easy-to-use interface. You can also click the GigaBrain tab after installing it on your computer to see what Redditors think about a product you're looking at on Amazon.
GigaBrain scans billions of online discussions from Reddit, but also other communities, to help users find the most relevant and authentic information. If you have the tab installed, you can also invoke a GigaBrain search automatically whenever you add words like “Reddit,” “best,” and “forum” to your Google searches.
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I admit: anything that makes a site like Reddit easier to use while bypassing the almighty Google gets an automatic “yes” vote from me.
“The Internet has been dominant for over 30 years, but most of human knowledge is still offline,” explains the GigaBrain team on the official website. “There are still questions that Google and ChatGPT cannot answer well. In many cases, Google searches return an endless list of low-quality content blogs that seem completely untrustworthy. And ChatGPT, while great for encoding questions or facts from Wikipedia, is not ready to answer questions that seek subjective or experience-based information.
The site continues: “We're building GigaBrain to help people find the most useful information from other people. Our first release makes it easier to gather insights from the billions of discussions on Reddit. We will continue to adapt to become the best place to get real information from real people.”
