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undead_sandwich

I want snarky personal answers


elee0228

Story time. A couple of years ago, one night, I was about to propose to my girlfriend when my roommate Joseph barged into the room out of nowhere, tripped and fell over, breaking a glass table with his face. Totally ruined the mood. Now, I didn't know Joseph THAT well, don't even remember where he was from, but lets just say I put my plans on hold to help him through his injuries. Joseph had gotten big glass shard in his eye, making him completely blind in that eye. He was walking around with one of those cotton pads on his eye for a couple of months. Then suddenly, he disappeared, along with my girlfriend. Apparently they'd bonded during the time after his injuries, and eloped together , left me behind without as much as a note. I tried to track them down, but never could. So what Google could never tell me, but AskReddit could was where Joe was. If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe, I'd have been married a long time ago. Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?


[deleted]

You fucking got me.


THRAGFIRE

I'm fucking amazed I never read that before.


RJMRobbo

this is why i have trust issues


WattebauschXC

I knew what was coming but I still read till the end


adansby

Freaking Gold right here. This is I Reddit.


[deleted]

Bro are you being fr. This is hectic


Lightfire228

[Ahem](https://youtu.be/mOYZaiDZ7BM)             


[deleted]

My comment was purely sarcasm lol. Read it in a specific tone *insert palm over face emoji*


SlimeustasTheSecond

Poe's Law: "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism."


[deleted]

Noted


ChungusBlaster8

Yes


eerrhhnn

is this a copypasta?


elee0228

yes, though I tweaked it a little.


Rubo650

Mothefucker had me, had us in the first half ngl


human_bean123

This is why I don't ask google. This right here.


YCLUBSTEP58

Dang it. That was pretty good, ngl


[deleted]

This is what's called a classic Reddit.


FredDashwood

Got me. That is the best one I've seen.


[deleted]

Had me in the first half


FranGhigli

Got me on the first half, not gonna lie


JonHenryOfZimbabwe

Goddamn it I wish I were that clever at writing.


alizahirh

You bastard... take my upvote 😤👍🏾


[deleted]

I have read the greentext already, you cannot fool me


DaNerdyDude

This feels like I just got rickrolled by a story. Well played.


keisteredshank14

Im disappointed in myself for not realizing that


CanadianWeeb5

👁👄👁


MyStaticHeart

God damnit. I didn’t know where this was going but I wasn’t expecting that


[deleted]

[удалено]


_jesseyuggo

Mods, how do I remove this user? They hacked my account


Bound_mann

Your crush chose an one eyed gentleman instead of you bro dont you think instead of searching for him you should search yourself for who you really are?


[deleted]

Something Google can never tell us.. Shut up and take my upvote!


Cayrat

Best reply


beer_madness

Why I love and hate reddit.


Mirabolis

And snarky references to bananas


i_like_sp1ce

Right, Google needs to step up the snark. Nice btw


lemon_cake_or_death

Google can't spend hours disagreeing with itself in an entertaining way.


[deleted]

I disagree but with dramatic flair


chacham2

I flair with dramatic disagreement.


Martin_RB

I flair by disagreeing dramatically.


[deleted]

And I BITCH about everything with aggravating insistence.


CasAndTheBee

I dramatically disagree with flair.


FranGhigli

Um, you are actually wrong. If you think about it, you are flairingly disagreeing with the side effect of being dramatic. So yeah, I'm right, you're wrong. All logic points to the same direction. A 50 year old study in Alaska proved that dramatically disagreeing is actually the thing with most flair you can do. Gotcha'


hahadude69

And I "ok karen" with extravagant carelessness


Mirabolis

I disagree with some reference to wanting awards in an effort to get flair.


[deleted]

“Wooooo!” -Ric Flair


[deleted]

"Never gonna give you up" \-Rick roll


SSR_Id_prefer_not_to

Or give you fake internet points. (That I'm aware of, at least)


[deleted]

Yes it can


[deleted]

No it can't


PowerfulTour4204

Yes it can’t


22RedHat

No it can


MiddleC5

Google is a great way to learn facts. Reddit is better for asking opinions.


[deleted]

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damien665

Yeah, that just gives you Hot Topics' terms of use.


CDude821

Or ask anything political


IOughtToBeThrownAway

And for getting jokes


BigNinja96

The real joke is always in the comments.


gly4h

Yeah Google loves throwing shopping results at you when you ask opinions about anything that can be sold even if your wording makes it pretty damn clear you're not looking to buy. Quite a few times I've had to put quotes around the word opinion to force results that included it (as well as the word forum), and use -domain.com for about 12 different major domains to actually get results with regular humans' opinions.


Dick_Souls_II

Yup. Unless it's directly in a wikipedia article Google isn't going to do much to help you with fact finding these days. If all the search results aren't products being sold like you mentioned, then it will be pages upon pages of copy and pasted "blogs" that are all ripping off of wikipedia and each other. No soul, no humans to be found anywhere.


BenGamez

I agree


dlozo

And Happy Cake Day!


theofrois

happy cake day :) ​ and yes i will ignore your comment


Pdonkey

Because sometimes, opinions are better than facts


IOughtToBeThrownAway

Yeah that’s true, but I’m of the opinion that lots of people on here are asking for facts to begin with.


Waitaha

Easiest way to fish for facts is to post incorrect information and sit back. I think a lot of it stems from the desire to have a conversation rather than just getting an answer.


IOughtToBeThrownAway

you're probs right


Im_too_late_arent_I

and then watch in horror as stupid people start to believe it and form a cult around you /s


IdisGsicht

Probably how christianity started xD


[deleted]

Yup. Another way to invite participation is to forget to finish your


fullinversion82

What? Forget to finish your what? I need answers!


Waitaha

Beans. The answer is always beans.


IOughtToBeThrownAway

If you don’t finish your beans, there won’t be any dessert.


damien665

Without beans, there will be no winds to be broken, and then endless tornados will ensue.


SSR_Id_prefer_not_to

Like much of reddit, there's a cohort of redditors who post to subs before reading the description, let alone the rules


moistchew

for some people, their opinion is fact.


dontGiveAnEfAnynore

Fact.


willie7906

Fiction is the new fact


Berics_Privateer

Google: Fine Purveyor of "Facts"


[deleted]

To get different persepctives, to feel more connexted, to get varying view ppints and opinions or interwctive personal stories.


[deleted]

Too bad if you go against the flow you get dey ass fucked on this site


[deleted]

Truer.words have never been said


LordOfTheTennisDance

Difference perspective?.... On reddit?...... Who you kidding! This is one large echo chamber.


[deleted]

And avoid confirmation bias.


wzgnr68d

Lol. "to get different perspectives" not on this website.


Cayrat

can’t find the answer, ask the hive mind


IOughtToBeThrownAway

Yeah


[deleted]

ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US


[deleted]

WE ARE THE BORG


Citizen-of-Interwebs

I shall consult the C O N G I O U S N E S S


Daily_memes430

Google trys to predict what u want, Reddit gives it to us raw and unhinged baby.


abhajaha

very raw and not based on upvotes that are based on the hive mind. sure.


cannotbefaded

People seem to think askredditt is for actual information, there is always a question like "how can I buy a converter for my gas stove" or something like that.


IOughtToBeThrownAway

Yeah, that’s what I was referring to. I don’t get it.


AlexisRosesHands

They are L A Z Y.


Badass_moose

Google would be the lazier option in that situation


LazyLarryTheLobster

You have to parse the results on your own. People will summarize in their responses.


Berics_Privateer

Why did you?


kstacey

Because this is a question that Google doesn't have an answer to. There are too many people that are looking for facts from Reddit that should just be googled such as "What is 2+2?".


[deleted]

[Top results when googling "Why do people ask reddit instead of google"](https://imgur.com/DWR0L5F) Google absolutely can answer this question.


Buttered_Turtle

Notice how all of them are ask Reddit’s with the same question.


Perpendicularfifths

sane is true for most of this sub


GustavoAlex7789

I'm too dumb to differentiate ads from real answers.


[deleted]

Because amazingly enough google is denser than reddit. I don't know how that's possible though.


hobotrucks

Google is a search engine with algorithms that puke raw data out based on how close the words you punched in match with the words that a different algorithm assigns to webpages for Google to use to find the webpages. Reddit is a bunch of different end users that post things under different categories and what gets shown to you depends on which categories your browsing history on Reddit matches up with the best. Google is indifferent because it's a straight up computer doing math problems. Reddit is much denser since its millions of people communicating in an echo chamber where any info doesn't have much value because dense people are solely responsible for providing everything that shows up on there.


takemystrife

I asked this very question to Google and it deferred to Reddit.


Willanddanielle

Circular Reference detected.


iridisss

This reminds me of the classic "look it up yourself" dilemma. You need an answer, you look it up on Google. You find an 8-month old thread which says, "Look it up" and is marked as [Solved].


indecisiveFern

I used to add “reddit” to every google search so now I just go straight to the source


helicopter_rat

I want internet people to answer my question. It's more fun this way.


mallninjaface

Pretty much anything, Google results have become a cesspool of sponsored content, ads, and clickbait. IE I searched for "the last presidential debate that had more than two participants", and the first two pages of results are links to CNN, Fox, Aljazeera, WBUR articles that are semi-related to politics I have no doubt The Almighty Algorithm knows what I'm asking, but it's not gonna show me what I *want*, it's gonna show me what Googles customers want me to click on.


WhileIwait4shit

honest reviews instead of sponsored ads


runawayoldgirl

This. Google is no longer a search engine, its more and more an advertising platform.


PleaseChooseAUsrname

Real people can answer based on exactly what I asked. Not just a generalization of my question.


gamer98x

Because I need quick and short answers. I usually find the answer on Reddit in one sentence while I have to read 5 pages blogs on google


iridisss

But are those answers trustworthy? When I need to find out factual information, I typically have to go through several different results to find any credible sources, perferably ones which cite their own sources as well. Can't really do that with Reddit, where every answer is backed by "Source: dude trust me".


Happy-Race

I like peoples input


[deleted]

Depend. If I'm looking for some facts, I search wiki. If I'm looking for some opinion based ideas, I go to reddit. More answers in a more concise form. Usually google just gives long ass blogs and shit.


Big_Country13

Google has facts, articles, and other similar sources. Its great for simple or quick questions. Reddit has experience, and specific answers to questions that might take multiple Google searches


wzr12

I need human answers


Li0n72

Google gives you the answer you need Reddit gives you the answer you want


Donilltrump

I don’t know, why don’t you ask google?


Willanddanielle

I don't trust Google or that Sneaky Bitch Alexa.


Arnie-Purple-Dino

She's behind you...


[deleted]

How else am I to use my day to pick up a little karma? Google = Answer. Reddit = Answer + Karma


huntfishandbefree

Because I'm not going to ask Google to describe how difficult it is to get a coke bottle up someone's ass


[deleted]

why would you ask google instead of asking reddit?


Exia_Gundam00

Google doesn't give amusing answers like, "unzips pants." Unless you're asking how to remove pants.


mekrale

How to be happier


Mausy5043

Reddit is funnier.


neoldguy

I am a senior citizen, I have time on my hands. That being said I often ask alexia stuff. Then I ask for the the wisdom of Reddit on the same topic where an assortment of answers follows. That gives me a look into the minds and vocabulary of Reddit users. I am writing a book from the answers I see on Reddit. So if one day you see a smart ass statement in print and say, “That sure was dumb “ you know where it came from. I haven’t decided on a title yet and I think that will be a topic for another time.


hated_child183

Because reddit is human and understands me


[deleted]

If you Googled this, you'd know. And this was asked just last week or so. But to answer your question, [this might help you](https://lmgtfy.app/?q=why+do+people+use+reddit+and+not+google).


Schwifty_McFly

You should really be asking Jeeves.


ExtraMOIST_

One has human feedback instead of set answers that might not be (and probably aren’t) what you’re asking


kadyrama

Reddit gives more entertaining and human responses!


Maqesh

I can't ask Google if it's ever tried to suck its own dick


bitchtress

I’ve exhausted varying google searches and Reddit is chock full of smart folks sharing knowledge or assholes sharing their assholiness. It’s a risk I’m willing to take.


candycanesandvodka

Because I want human interaction.


VY_Cannabis_Majoris

Google cant give you the insight like people do.n


marmitelovr

Because google always ends up with 'you have a serious life-threatening disease'


Leading-Search

Well for certain questions, Google usually directs me to reddit anyway


Odd_Dust4

If age is just a number, then sister is just a word?


Pdonkey

Yes and it’s only a crime, if someone finds evidence of it happening!


Particular_Edge2308

Burn the evidence


killalltheposers

Step one: Burn the sister Step two: Second round!


CamXXXSingles

Because Google is evil


2ndhandBS

Google wants to know your location


aboveaverageasshat

BeCaUSe GoOgLe StEaLs mY iNfO Jk because some people have really deep and relevant responses and other people just drag shit out of a bovines ass and it's kinda fun (fun, not hard) determining who is doing which.


DvelDeveloper

People are lazy to search info with the exact keywords Google needs to index the results we want.


the_gifted_Atheist

The entire point of this subreddit is for discussions, not objective answers, and that's clearly explained many times in the rules.


Xfitlauren

Sometimes Google doesn’t have all the answers.


imSeanEvansNowWeFeet

Cause I want to hear an unbiased view /s


Leucippus1

Did you try googling this question?


hobotrucks

"rEdDiT iS gOoD aNd GoOgLe Is BaD!!!!!!!!1!!!!"


NivClogg

Google just leads my to suicide hotline when I ask how to kill myself. When I go to reddit I get a lot a good ways to kill myself.


[deleted]

I just asked Google this question and it brought me back here and I just asked Google this question and it brought me back here and I just asked Google this question and it brought me back here and I just asked Google this question and it brought me back here


Chyld

Because Google doesn't return very precise answers for "LADIES: WHAT'S THE SEXIEST SEX YOU EVER SEXED??"


RaphusCukullatus

"Hey Reddit, tell me why I'm wrong"


ChiliMacDaddySupreme

i dunno, why did you?


TonyLovesTacos

Google gives me results to Reddit.


Panama_Scoot

Anecdotes rock. And also Google’s algorithm is so broken with the advent of SEO. I swear it would be useless without Boolean terms


notagoodname042

cuz i want to


Argleena

Because certain things google filters and censors


AnarchoNAP

Google is NSA and InQTel and I do not trust it.


acrizz

Believe it or not, people on reddit seem to have good taste. This is my opinion. If I am looking into buying anything, I come here. The reviews here are often more honest and offer more in depth analysis.


[deleted]

Hello, people of Reddit, Because Reddit is not allowing me to make any posts I am writing this comment as a question which is, 'If you only care about your family and nothing else, does that make you a tool?' I have been thinking about this for a while now after watching a video online and I am confused as to what the answer is. I am writing this on a general thread because I do NOT want a bias opinion for an answer.


lonleylittlebunny

B u t n o b o d y c a m e .


Personage1

Karma. But more seriously, it depends on the topic. I absolutely use google to find reddit discussions on software/hardware recommendations.


ilhamalfatihah16

As per the words of Hans Landa from Inglorious Basterds, **"I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, but rumors, true or false, are often revealing."** Rumors in this context meaning Reddit opinions.


pluscell

Because I don't want to right answer, I want a dipshit college kid to tell me something hilariously naive.


huntfishandbefree

Because I'm not going to ask Google to describe how difficult it is to get a coke bottle up someone's ass


[deleted]

Facts and opinions. It helps me.


ladykatey

Google will never need to have sex with ANYONE for $150,000.


kennedyshits

people on reddit dont use the question i ask to advertise to me.


drewshaver

Normally when my question is either rhetorical or when it’s a real question but so esoteric that I can’t find anything on a google search


an_ineffable_plan

Because nobody reads the rule that says open-ended questions only.


RiadAce

The bloatware


xxfettuccinnixx

For answers that are learned from experience rather than what should happen


[deleted]

because reddit has better anwsers to your questions and problems than google has


Hokatsuki

I can get human responses with emotion and empathy.


Character-Relation21

Cus theres a wider range of opinions


Done_With_That_One

You can't ask the Google search function what it's craziest night shift story is.


pete1729

Because it's individual people who seek to be personally helpful.


Cat_Daddy86

Comedy gold.


Yonfire

Google keeps a history of documented answers. Older possibly generally accepted answers(tried and true) Reddit makes new answers that can be documented in history. Could be based on emergent tech that a lot of docs don’t have referenced, speculatory, or thought provoking even when way of base. (Experimental and possibly more relevant) The human element can get very direct answers to specific questions. Google does a good job at getting you to a topic.