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

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Post by deafpolygon »

taylodl wrote: post #101
mech422 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'Google fu' is a myth - it's just to make us feel good. Google ignores pretty much +"anything" it wants to. (thank god it doesn't igore site: yet) What would be awesome is to have a REAL _search_ engine back, like Alta Vista - with a proper search language, and not some NLP that tries to guess what I want. Imagine being able to search a database with only keywords, vs SQL queries - thats pretty much the difference be…

I would love to have Alta Vista in 2023! I still remember when Google search first came out and it seemed like magic. Now that magic has long worn off. If it weren't for YouTube, which Google didn't even create, Google wouldn't be in my life at all. I think that's significant for a company that at one time used to be so dominant.

What do you use nowadays for search?

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

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Post by MathMonkeyMan »

nicbou wrote: post #129
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

Another one is "-best" when looking for just about anything.

If I -best -top -2023 with an adblocker, I often get zero results. It's incredible.

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

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Post by ornornor »

tcmart14 wrote: post #82
carterschonwald wrote: post #32

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Yeah, I’m horrified but it’s wound up being the only way to find quality amateur writing about dog breeds. Most websites in that subject matter seem to be semi algorithmic content farms that echo the same uncited information.

Not to mention, most of those websites are loaded up to the hilt on a bunch of annoying adware. You can read 2-3 sentences, then you hit ad add you have to scroll past to read another 2-3 sentences to hit yet another ad you have to scroll past.

Reddit falls in that category as well unless you use old.Reddit.com

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

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Post by ornornor »

mech422 wrote: post #92
pricci wrote: post #33

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site:reddit.com edit: it's better to use site:reddit.com/r/ to remove some spam from /users/

site:old.reddit.com FTW! :-D edit: its a joke..it would save me manually changing the url, cuz I'm too lazy to install the plugin to auto-change it for me.

On PC there are extensions to automatically rewrite Reddit.com to old.Reddit.com if you didn’t know, saves a lot of time and aggravation.

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

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Post by ornornor »

mech422 wrote: post #130
rationalist wrote: post #125

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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 wonder how many people actually use/prefer old.reddit.com ? Seems like everyone I know uses it ... Even the ones with reddit accounts.

In our tech bubble, yes.

Go to /r/popular to get a sense of the average Reddit user, they don’t use old.

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

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Post by ornornor »

suddenclarity wrote: post #104
eimrine wrote: post #43

Torrent trackers (but not tpb usually). Just search some books on the topic you are interested in and that's it. For example, I used to have 2 medical problems which I have successfully solved using this method. One medical problem of mine I have solved completely and what about another I can prove you there is just no cure (despite of some doctors promise me that they can do it for $$$). That was a lot of reading bu…

Maybe Facebook? I believe there are a ton of semiprivate support groups for different health conditions. But I guess one might need a starting point to be able to find a relevant one since they are specialized.

Heh I’ve found that the overlap between “medical” anything and charlatans/mysticists/anti-vaxxers is pretty high on Facebook. This may or may not be a feature, depending on the individual.
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