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0 pointssillysaurusx3y ago0 comments

I’m delighted to see that people are recognizing what a threat tiktok poses.

I don’t blame people for being skeptical. It’s easy to forget that big companies die due to being transcended, not replaced. The YouTube killer won’t look anything like YouTube, and tiktok fits that bill nicely.

Case in point: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR2KUDn8/?k=1

Google is realizing how bad it is that they can’t index TikToks, the same way they realized how bad it is they couldn’t index tweets in 2015 or so.

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antifa3y ago

I missed the beginning of the video because it autoplayed while muted. Then I couldn't go back to the beginning because there are no video controls.

Tiktok does not fit the bill.

Tiktoks not being indexed is a win for content and UI quality.

lovehashbrowns3y ago

Oh damn, that’s something I’ve never even considered before. I didn’t even think of using TikTok as a search engine.

Damn, I was legitimately trying to not sign up for TikTok but if it can actually beat out Google in a search for terms like that, that’s actually huge

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