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

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Post by itchyouch »

guelo wrote: post #99
Our_Benefactors wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

The thankless job and passion projects of subreddit moderators.

Most large subs will curate the content via their opinionated rules and enforce them. There's teams of humans that are basically cleaning up the garbage.

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

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Post by mancerayder »

Reddit keyword added to the google search, a bunch of people said, and I do the same.

I do the same search on google and duckduckgo, and get equally interesting but different results. Diversity of viewpoints is great!

What is wrong with these search engine product folks at Google? They've created a big opportunity to destroy their moat.

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

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Post by Xeophon »

Euphorbium wrote: post #116
mharig wrote: post #96

Switched from Google to Startpage, then to duckduckgo, then to swisscows. What really bothers me is that Google Scholar returns more and more crap.

I have moved to scinapse.io and it is great. Scholar is dead.

Sadly they do not seem to have all the papers. ArXiV is missing completely, e.g. searching for „Attention is all you need“ does not return the paper which has been published on NeurIPS

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

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Post by rationalist »

mech422 wrote: post #92
pricci wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ever since Firefox from Android removed the ability to install any extension, I now have to edit it manually every f***ing time.

Surely someone who works on Firefox for Android is reading this, please add that extension back!

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

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Post by rationalist »

throw_away1525 wrote: post #8

I'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).

The vast majority of it may still be written by humans, but they may not all be impartial humans; companies pretend to be end users and shill their products via reddit comments.

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

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Post by burnished »

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.

My understanding is that the marketing is more subtle - tell a hiking story where footwear is important but dont mention the branx, wait for some one to ask, suddenly you have a product placement that looks and feels natural.

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

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Post by mech422 »

suddenclarity wrote: post #103
mech422 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'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 be…

Maybe different definitions of Google fu? I can't recall the number of times coworkers claim to have googled something for half an hour that I manage to find on the first or second attempt. Maybe you overestimate the skill of the average Joe?

I just meant that half the time google ignores what you give it...

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

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Post by mech422 »

rationalist wrote: post #125
mech422 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ever since Firefox from Android removed the ability to install any extension, I now have to edit it manually every f***ing time. Surely someone who works on Firefox for Android is reading this, please add that extension back!

I wonder how many people actually use/prefer old.reddit.com ?

Seems like everyone I know uses it ... Even the ones with reddit accounts.

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