I feel like Google became absolutely unusable as a search engine. You search for "keyword1 keyword2", and at least half of the results are either "Missing: keyword1" or "Missing: keyword2".
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#32For complement I would recommend Russian yandex, and vk.com (russian facebook). It is like snapshot of internet from 2018, before everything was hit by massive censorship. It has some very niche communities that are no longer on internet. For example Ancient Egypt history, western net is filled with alien theories, Russians are doing experimental archaeology. Also repair, electronics... Also Telegram is like second i…
> Also Telegram is like second internet, nobody talks about!
Do you have any groups/channels that you can recommend?
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#33For complement I would recommend Russian yandex, and vk.com (russian facebook). It is like snapshot of internet from 2018, before everything was hit by massive censorship. It has some very niche communities that are no longer on internet. For example Ancient Egypt history, western net is filled with alien theories, Russians are doing experimental archaeology. Also repair, electronics... Also Telegram is like second i…
Telegram? How so? I'm still only using it for chatting. How would you even find anything on Telegram? The simple global search? I wouldn't like to join random shady groups found through there.
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#34I feel like Google became absolutely unusable as a search engine. You search for "keyword1 keyword2", and at least half of the results are either "Missing: keyword1" or "Missing: keyword2".
Make your tool so idiots can use it and only idiots will use it
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#35Gwern is the person I'd become if I could properly monetize my ADHD and rabbit hole seeking behavior. I absolutely love his website and everything he publishes, and I am always delighted to look over his new stuff. Wish there are more people like him to read from.
His website is the best designed website I have genuinely ever visited, so fast, easy to navigate and very little blank space which makes it information dense. I also love the inline link opening, I definitely will be implementing that when I make my own website in the future.
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#36I found it useful to screenrecord all my computer activity. It is OCR searchable. This way if I vaguely remember some bits, I can reconstruct my sources. It also preserves original text, in case sources get edited.
I tried something similar, I had a text file called mylog.txt and whenever I hit alt + m it would append whatever was in the clipboard to the text file along with the date & time. But it turned out I was terrible at predicting what I would want to find again and it turned out to be not very useful to me.
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#37Gwern is the person I'd become if I could properly monetize my ADHD and rabbit hole seeking behavior. I absolutely love his website and everything he publishes, and I am always delighted to look over his new stuff. Wish there are more people like him to read from.
Are you perchance able to provide some kind of RSS feed to his website? I'm having a hard time finding his newest stuff. You can subscribe to his newsletters but he stopped doing those two years ago
There is the firehose from his patreon though that might not be exactly what you are looking for. Personally, I just check 'newest' on his frontpage every now and then.
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#38Wondering why we don't have web search engineers
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#39Great article, but can't help feel it just highlights how broken Google search is from a UX perspective.
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#40For complement I would recommend Russian yandex, and vk.com (russian facebook). It is like snapshot of internet from 2018, before everything was hit by massive censorship. It has some very niche communities that are no longer on internet. For example Ancient Egypt history, western net is filled with alien theories, Russians are doing experimental archaeology. Also repair, electronics... Also Telegram is like second i…
Yandex image search is actually useful, especially after Google destroyed their image search.