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Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
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#62yandex.com I usually search for books, movies and mp3s. With Google is kinda hard (or impossible) to do the same.
For kicks I just went to Yandex and punched in Offspring Self Esteem mp3. Probably the first song I ever downloaded an mp3 of back in the 90s.
First result, some Russian site with a big download button, boom downloaded it. (I, uh, own it legally, of course. yeah.) Zero hassle. Can't believe this works in 2023. I've been under a rock.
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#63Earlier 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 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?
PlayerUp.com, Signals.sh, EpicNPC.com, the number of sites you can sell your social media account is endless. Don't expect to get too much from it though.
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#64I've reverted my expectations about search engines to what they were in the early days, dusted off my old research skills, and accepted that I'm going to have to do some work myself. I still use Google, but its ability to approximate a reference librarian is diminished.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your search needs must be somewhat niche. Are you doing PhD research on content farms?
Having decent google fu never stopped being important, you can still find what you're looking for just fine most of the time if you know how to ask google to find that for you.
So what does your 2023 google fu look like?
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#69Blacklist 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 simp…
For searching a subreddit from google, you can do site:reddit.com/r/SUBREDDIT
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#70I 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
This is my go to search hack too. Recently, I've started to see it becoming more and more ineffective. Corps have figured out that reddit is the new SEO hack. Now there's a sudden influx of 'ad' posts by corps. Lots and lots of posts with a title "Samsung's new Galaxy 28 is cool!". Minimal upvotes, no comments.
IMO it’s not just astroturfing, the general sickness of social media has spread into every subreddit now. Lots of unqualified, angry comments, or none at all. I think during the pandemic and the Ukrainian war the user base and engagement dynamics have changed. I find Reddit to be less useful for anything recent. There is a void of quality content for the last two years. It’s not just burrowed. The frontpage is only bot-reposts, ragebait and violence porn, now, and I think many sane people left Reddit or became rage junkies themselves.