{"id":618469,"date":"2026-05-02T02:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618469\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:52:18","slug":"people-are-finally-using-reddits-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618469\/","title":{"rendered":"People are finally using Reddit’s search"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being harried by complaints that its search function needed improving, Reddit has in the last few years invested in its search<\/a> engine, and has even added AI features<\/a> to help its users find what they\u2019re looking for. It appears that investment is finally paying off: The company has seen a 30% year-on-year jump in the number of people using search every week, CEO Steve Huffman said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Huffman noted that search has been one of the major drivers of user acquisition and retention for the platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn search, we have seen great performance. Search DAUs, WAUs, and queries are up meaningfully year-over-year. It\u2019s a great driver of retention and DAUs. The search team is, quite frankly, I think doing a great job. If you use Reddit Answers, you can see it is better integrated into the product,\u201d he said on the company\u2019s first-quarter post-results conference call.<\/p>\n

Earlier in February, the platform started testing product placement through AI search results in the U.S<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Huffman said that around 40% of conversations on Reddit are commercial in nature, and 84% shoppers feel more confident in their buying decisions after researching on Reddit. <\/p>\n

The social platform ended the quarter with more than 493 million weekly active unique users (WAUq), up 23% from the same period last year, and about 126 million daily active unique users (DAUq), a 17% improvement from a year earlier. <\/p>\n

Reddit reported a 7% improvement in U.S. visitors, reaching 53.5 million DAUqs, and 73.3 million DAUqs internationally, a 26% increase. The company said it plans to reach a billion daily users worldwide and 100 million daily users in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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Besides search, the company said its machine translation feature<\/a>, which now supports over 30 languages, has driven significant user growth in the past few quarters.<\/p>\n

Reddit reported revenue of $663 million in Q1 2026, beating Wall Street\u2019s expectations of $609.8 million. The company also said it only spent $1 million in capital expenditures in the quarter. <\/p>\n

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