Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by graeme » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:52 PM UTC

Google or Reddit, depends what I’m looking for. Google does still work for a lot of stuff

For the kind of stuff where adding Reddit works, one issue is no one writes blogs anymore.

I also append for a lot of things. Like say I am checking a hotel I’ll add review and find sites which wrote reviews and aren’t just aggregators

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

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Post by pkdpic » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:52 PM UTC

rfrey wrote: post #34

xnx wrote: post #22

Google. It's fantastic. Gets me the information I'm looking for in 1-2 queries, tops. Often the answer is right on the result page without even needing to click into a bunch of crappy sites.

Your search needs must be somewhat niche. Are you doing PhD research on content farms?

That was solid.

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

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Post by eimrine » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:52 PM UTC

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 but no other search engine on Earth can really search any medical stuff and no forums allow to discuss medical problems without a stupid censorship kind of "somebody might hurt yourself if he found this discussion by some wrong reason so we ain't allow you to discuss your medical stuff here".

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

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Post by kjkjadksj » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:53 PM UTC

On the other hand, theres now plenty of terms where I think, “theres no way I will get specific results with something so vague” and just resign to living in ignorance.

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

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Post by TheRealPomax » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:53 PM UTC

folkrav wrote: post #19

focusedone wrote: post #14

Earlier 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

I do enjoy DDG, but I also still seem to have to use the !g bang to fall back to a Google search more often than I'd like to.

This. As much as I like the idea of DDG, any time I try to use it again I end up having to add !g more than half the time.

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

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Post by user3939382 » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:53 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by sh4rks » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:53 PM UTC

Blacklist Quora

I use DuckDuckGo with Firefox Android + ublock on my phone. DDG is great for simpler queries.

On my desktop, I use Google. My query usually ends with "reddit". If there's a subreddit for the topic I'm trying to find out about, I'll use Reddit's subreddit search feature (as horrendous as it is).

For work - Google. I sometimes use site:stackoverflow.com. Recently, I've also tried asking ChatGPT for simple code snippets.

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

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Post by revskill » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:53 PM UTC

jasonlotito wrote: post #30

DuckDuckGo.

duckgo.com is shorter

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

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Post by eliseumds » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:54 PM UTC

Mostly Reddit or Twitter via Google.

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

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Post by alangibson » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:54 PM UTC

nerddadnear40 wrote: post #23

Welp, 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…

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