For years I used to prepend site:reddit.com or site:news.ycombinator.com to Google searches but these are tapped out now as the communities have fully reverted to the mean along with heavy censorship. Currently it’s all through networks like clusters of people on Twitter who work in a niche or even 4chan hearsay to keep on top of things.
Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
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#212If I need anything important, I use Million Short, cut the top million sites, and usually also do -fandom.com for the searches I run.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#213Reddit search. HN search. Yandex. https://search.marginalia.nu/ (and Google)
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#214I 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
Google used to have a "forums" search type option which brought up some great results from forums. The "reddit" trick seems similar to that.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
!a for an amazon search
!e for ebay
!m for Gmaps (without tracking, I believe)
Hundreds(?) more. At this point I prepend ! to whatever search I'm doing and it takes me exactly where I needed on the first try.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
!a for an amazon search !e for ebay !m for Gmaps (without tracking, I believe) Hundreds(?) more. At this point I prepend ! to whatever search I'm doing and it takes me exactly where I needed on the first try.
And I'll add !hn for a quick HackerNews search :-)