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Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

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Post by ttt3ts »

cjauvin wrote: post #71
zelias wrote: post #9

I append the word "reddit" to most non-technical google searches. Platform has been around long enough that _someone_ on it has discussed the issue I'm looking for

When you think about it, adding "reddit" is a kind of counterpart mechanism to the rise of AI and generated content in a general sense. There's a real thirst for answers coming from real, genuine people, and adding "reddit" is the last resort we have to maximize the likelihood of it.

Hardly, reddit, in its current form, will die because of LLMs. It is too easy to get an account and post. They will have to wall the garden or trash will fill it. :(

Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

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Post by rationalist »

boring_twenties wrote: post #134
rationalist wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever since Firefox from Android removed the ability to install any extension, I now have to edit it manually every f***ing time. Surely someone who works on Firefox for Android is reading this, please add that extension back!

I recommend https://f-droid.org/packages/ml.docilealligator.infinityforr... It's much better than trying to use any version of reddit in the mobile browser.

Does anyone know of a reddit viewer with tabs, like a web browser?

Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

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Post by roughly »

user3939382 wrote: post #46

Kagi. DDG/Bing are ridiculous with ignoring your search terms, even with quotes. I had enough. Google often has a whole page or almost a whole page of clever-widgets before any actual results, not to mention my ethical objections to their behavior and the SEO spam. Kagi works great, I like the fact that I'm paying for it and my interests are primary in the relationship.

Kagi’s been fantastic. I started using them out on principle, but it’s a legitimately good search engine. I almost never find myself going back to google, and when I do, Google’s usually not finding anything either.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

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Post by throwaway28385 »

Kagi. Been paying for 5-ish months or so. The ROI is huuuge.

Between personal and work use, I do 500-700 searches/month and I find what I need very quickly about 90% of the time.

Also benefits my cow-orkers as they don’t have to listen to my incessant bitching about “suggestion engines” and other nonsense that the likes of Google & friends have become.

Beside the lack of ads and tracking, other features like pin/rank/block of sites are super useful at streamlining results.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

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Post by petra »

Euphorbium wrote: post #116
mharig wrote: post #96

Switched from Google to Startpage, then to duckduckgo, then to swisscows. What really bothers me is that Google Scholar returns more and more crap.

I have moved to scinapse.io and it is great. Scholar is dead.

Could you expand on why is it better?
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