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

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Post by pcdoodle »

safety1st wrote: post #62
danwee wrote: post #3

yandex.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.

Nice!

Mine was: My own summer, deftones.

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

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Post by mech422 »

pricci wrote: post #33
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

site:reddit.com edit: it's better to use site:reddit.com/r/ to remove some spam from /users/

site:old.reddit.com FTW! :-D

edit: its a joke..it would save me manually changing the url, cuz I'm too lazy to install the plugin to auto-change it for me.

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

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Post by mech422 »

ipaddr wrote: post #78
guelo wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

gah - the new layout drives me batty. I guess its worse when you're not logged in (like me) - it won't just display the full thread in simple chronological order. old.reddit is better though

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

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Post by mech422 »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #37
rfrey wrote: post #34

Earlier 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.

'Google fu' is a myth - it's just to make us feel good. Google ignores pretty much +"anything" it wants to. (thank god it doesn't igore site: yet)

What would be awesome is to have a REAL _search_ engine back, like Alta Vista - with a proper search language, and not some NLP that tries to guess what I want.

Imagine being able to search a database with only keywords, vs SQL queries - thats pretty much the difference between something like Alta Vista and NLP/Google/Bing

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

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Post by f0e4c2f7 »

Adding hacker news or reddit to the query is a good trick. Especially if you use that to try to find a book reccomendation on the topic your interested in.

ChatGPT is a great resource too. It's just one step in a multi step process though. Anything you get you want to go back out to the internet and verify, but that goes for random reddit threads too.

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

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Post by Our_Benefactors »

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.

> reddit has been able to resist the ever present corruption of money

Ah yes the small family businesses of Condé Nast and Tencent.

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

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Post by guelo »

Our_Benefactors wrote: post #98
guelo wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> reddit has been able to resist the ever present corruption of money Ah yes the small family businesses of Condé Nast and Tencent.

I wasn't clear. The point I was trying to make is about what we're discussing in this thread, how reddit is somehow still useful for search and hasn't been completely ruined by seo and ad spam.

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

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Post by tmaly »

Nicksil wrote: post #7

Duck it https://duck.com

There was a point in time where ddg was letting you contribute specific information to the results. It would have been cool if this had continues. An example of this would be say a way to return results specific to allrecipes or imdb etc.
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