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 Serenacula » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:54 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #36

rdudek wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been doing this too with additional step to check the user's post history to make sure it's not some SEO spam. Most of the time, the advice is legit.

> I've been doing this too with additional step to check the user's post history to make sure it's not some SEO spam How exactly you do this? People sell their "organically grown" reddit accounts all the time, so they look like normal users, while just a specific post is the ad itself, then the account is dumped after that.

You can sell your Reddit account? Where and for how much?

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

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

Google: Any research starts here.

ChatGPT: Coding, writing, configuration help.

Seamless.ai & linkedIN: People search.

Youtube: Topical info, deep dives.

SeekingAlpha: Finance.

Twitter & 4chan/pol/: Breaking news (after sifting through the poison, shitposts & disinfo).

Reddit: Deep dives & medical & reviews.

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

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Post by AmericanOP » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:55 PM UTC

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

It is amusing I uninstalled the Reddit app because I use google as an entry-point so often and it’s really a pain universal links forced me to open the app for a worse experience.

Stupid product strategy to ignore Google!

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

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Post by Gualdrapo » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:55 PM UTC

Not an answer to the question by any means (now I find new stuff in Reddit), but recently I've noted that when you search something enclosed in double quotes with Google, for the second page it will remove them

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

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Post by rene_d » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:56 PM UTC

Very happy with kagi. As good as google in its best days, if not better.

In 19 out of 20 cases the first link is what I need, for both private and work related searches. Very fast, no ads.

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

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Post by AmericanOP » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:57 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…

Google is a better search engine of Reddit than Reddit. Especially the app search which is a bloody mess.

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

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Post by ace32229 » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:57 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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Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?

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Post by cassianoleal » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:57 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.

I was like that a few years ago when I started using it. With time I realised that my query was just not returning the expected results in DDG so I'd just add the !g as a reflex. That rarely helped though but I kept doing it for a while until I lost the habit. Now I just try different queries in DDG and it may not be miles better than Google but it's definitely not worse.

As always, YMMV.

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

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Post by altdataseller » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:58 PM UTC

I use Twitter Search and sort by Top threads.

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

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Post by kerkeslager » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:59 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…

> Welp, time to short Google in the long run.

That's probably not a great idea for two reasons:

1. Google has their fingers in a lot of pies. You want to short Google search, but a short on Google is also shorting all their other businesses, as well as shorting future ventures and shorting the possibility that their management will pivot business strategy away from search.

2. Shorting in general leans toward being a short-term strategy, because most forms of shorts are costly to maintain because you're paying interest on loans, option premiums, etc. Futures are probably the cheapest way, but then you're susceptible to short-term fluctuations: the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

EDIT: alangibson also makes a good point.