I'm getting tired of repeating every Google search with quotes around each word. What search engine do you clever hackers use these days, and why?
Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#2What kind of things are you looking for? I've been using Kagi (a paid search engine with a free tier) and quite like it but tbh it is only marginally better than google at the moment.
I've also been trying to ask questions on forums more when I can't find answers (or blog myself) that way people in the future can find the.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#3yandex.com
I usually search for books, movies and mp3s. With Google is kinda hard (or impossible) to do the same.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#4What kind of things are you looking for? I've been using Kagi (a paid search engine with a free tier) and quite like it but tbh it is only marginally better than google at the moment. I've also been trying to ask questions on forums more when I can't find answers (or blog myself) that way people in the future can find the.
Kagi used to be fine. It gets its results from Google, though, and recently it became much worse than Google.
I'm back to Google and having a rage aneurysm every time it refuses to respect my quotes (which is always).
NLP is the worst thing that ever happened to search, other than SEO and content farms of course.
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#5yandex.com I usually search for books, movies and mp3s. With Google is kinda hard (or impossible) to do the same.
That‘s Russian IIRC, is it safe to use?
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#6In general, I let a lot of stuff find me via aggregators like Reddit and HN. If I’m searching for specific things, I’ll often go to a specialized site like Stack Overflow. But if I don’t know exactly what I’m after, then it’s the “search Google, put a couple key terms in quotes, repeat” dance.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#7Duck it
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#8I'm still just appending `reddit` to my Google searches to try to find results written by human beings, although I am not optimistic that this technique will work for much longer (or perhaps even 100% of the time now).
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#9I 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
Re: Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
#10yandex.com I usually search for books, movies and mp3s. With Google is kinda hard (or impossible) to do the same.
That‘s Russian IIRC, is it safe to use?
What do you mean by "safe"? It's a search engine, it just returns you search results. If you are worried about JS/tracking... well, Google and others are already tracking you. I use Apple devices, so Apple knows everything about me as well. If you are worried about the links you may click when yandex returns you search results, there is nothing special about yandex, same rules apply as in the wild wild web: double check what you download (e.g., do not double click "rihanna-song1.mp3.exe" on Windows!)