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.
Didn't know that site. Thanks a lot!
Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
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Universal links?
Presumably the ability for an app to register itself as the handler for links matching a pattern. So, when you click a link to a reddit thread from a search result, it opens in the reddit app rather than the default browser.
Is it possible to do that with Chrome/Chromium on a Linux desktop? I would like to reroute certain URL to different browsers.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
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Re: Reddit -- I'd love for YC to issue a Request For Startups around verified human identity - soon it will be hard to distinguish people from AI that posts comments, participates and then astroturfs sites like reddit. Account creation date will help as a band-aid but isn't the right solution.
You mean like worldcoin, by yc's very own Sam Altman?
I’ve never seen any indication that Worldcoin is more than a dystopian scam. Even on HN the stories are negative.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-16/worldcoin...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#184Agree with the fact that google web search is now garbage.
I almost always use simultaneously yandex+google.
In google I always set a max limit date, usually 2 years back.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#185I either use a website I built that subscribes to a host of RSS feeds (https://datente.com), or find stuff via friends' links on LI/Twitter/Facebook (and then add 'good' sources to my Twitter followers, or RSS aggregator), or from HN (and then add to Twitter or RSS), or from people sending me texts/IMs
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#186Switched 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.
This is a lump of fetid garbage.
I looked myself up. It listed a bunch of facts about me: # of papers and citations, fields of research, names of students and “advisers”.
Except every one of these facts was hilariously wrong. I recognized the names—they were all coauthors on some paper. Obviously they use cornpooters to decide what are my relationships to these coauthors, and present the false output of their program as if it were fact.
Don’t use this junk. Unless your goal is to be ludicrously misinformed.
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#187Welp, time to short Google in the long run. For whatever topic I'm interested in, I'll search reddit to find where the hardcore fanbase is. For example, if I'm interested in flashlights, that would be candlepower forums. The echo chambers have grown to substantial epicenters now. Give me a search engine that finds those and puts search in it and I'd pay $5 a month for that because at that point, you've found the expe…
Google is a better search engine of Reddit than Reddit. Especially the app search which is a bloody mess.
Someone should tell Reddit if they fixed their search they might supplant Google search... they could become the front page of the internet or something.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#188I've used ddg for 10 years now. mostly for the bang shortcuts eg "!e mopho" searches ebay.
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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?
My default general search is DDG. If I'm searching for hobby-related stuff then I search Reddit, if I'm searching for work-related stuff then I search HN and SO. It seems
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Duck has come a long way and is seriously useful now. The Bangs are fantastic time savers too. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
How are the bangs time savers? They drop you into the search interface of whatever site you're searching, which is fairly universally bad. If I try a search like "Django connection pooling !r," I'm dropped into Reddit's search interface, and the top result is "My pool has water while not being conected to my water system" from /r/RimWorld. This is not useful in the least.
strange, i got https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Django%20connection%20poolin... when using that search. i think ddg bangs work best when set as the default search and you just type into search bar or right click on highlighted text then search. using vivaldi but chrome should be similar.