Recently, we covered some of Google’s rationale for ranking forums like Reddit and Quora so well in the Discussion and Forums box for many queries. Just a few days ago, we covered how I was sad to see Google ranking some dangerous and potentially harmful forum threads for health-related queries.

Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liason, posted comments on a LinkedIn post from Lily Ray defending the statement he made on this topic. I’ll share them all here, because I am sure many of you did not see them:

The confusion here is that what Google ranks now in those Discussion and Forum boxes are mostly Reddit and Quora, so Danny doesn’t need to outright say Reddit or Quora, that is what ranks 95% of the time. So I am not sure why there needs to be clarification there.

There is also this post from Danny Sullivan on late Friday as well on X:

And then there is this post on Reddit from about five days ago from Danny Sullivan:

Anyway – it seems Google is aware of the issues many are expressing. It seems Google may make changes based on these issues. How long that might take is unknown. These things can take a while…

Forum discussion at LinkedIn.