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

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Post by cjauvin »

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

When you think about it, adding "reddit" is a kind of counterpart mechanism to the rise of AI and generated content in a general sense. There's a real thirst for answers coming from real, genuine people, and adding "reddit" is the last resort we have to maximize the likelihood of it.

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

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Post by marmetio »

jlmorton wrote: post #40
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

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.

That's what the "site:" operator is for.

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

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Post by guelo »

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

Not sure why reddit has been able to resist the ever present corruption of money, but I think that's also why reddit is one of the few remaining politically progressive strongholds.

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

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Post by TheRealPomax »

throw_away1525 wrote: post #68
TheRealPomax wrote: post #37

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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?

I have no idea how to answer that, because it depends on what I'm looking for, and involves making sure I have the terms that go with the subject I'm looking for.

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

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Post by pasttense01 »

danwee wrote: post #10
laserdancepony wrote: post #5

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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 ch…

He may mean "is it infested with malware"? Historically there were a lot of warez or porn sites based in Russia and East European countries which were.

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

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Post by stnmtn »

jlmorton wrote: post #40
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

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.

It's not useful for exploratory querying, but it's very useful when I know what I want to find on a specific website.

For example, I want to see the latest videos uploaded on youtube by channel I like. I type in "!yt channelName". Or if I want to go to letterboxd to check out a movie's reviews. "!letterboxd movie"

It's not much of a timersaver, it's literally just saving the step of going to youtube.com and then searching. But I love tiny efficiencies like that

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

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Post by ipaddr »

guelo wrote: post #73
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

Not sure why reddit has been able to resist the ever present corruption of money, but I think that's also why reddit is one of the few remaining politically progressive strongholds.

It hasn't, have you seen the new design and forceful push to the app where your data gets sold. They haven't gotten rid of old. yet but they will. Not sure about the progressive stronghold or if it's a woke heaven, that might be your subreddit

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

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Post by kerpotgh »

Google. It’s still hands down the best way to find information.

If I’m doing research I would start with google and then liberally use SciHub.

Nowadays, for brand new areas of interest I start with chatGPT to get an overview then drill down into each new item/keyword using google.

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

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Post by kerpotgh »

throw_away1525 wrote: post #13
laserdancepony wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That‘s Russian IIRC, is it safe to use?

Even if Putin himself could read your searches, would you care? I guess don't use Yandex if you're a Ukrainian soldier but otherwise what are you worried about?

Yes, there’s no telling how states like Russia secure that information, disseminate it to other paying customers, leak info about high value citizens to use as kompromat etc.
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