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How do people find good information on the internet these days? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect.... It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It's no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it's early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hacker News top links

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of competition and a big overload of data. That makes searching for stuff really hard. Don't know the solution...

[–] TacoButtPlug 1 points 1 year ago

I have researchers and journal rss's on feedly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

people are gave some good answers.
it boils down to various large sites.
wikipedia(app) and reddit(app) are my top.
often time i just bang out a search and pinpoint the answer and trash the rest.
[deleted] stackexchanges and ycomb are some other popular sites.
quora used to seem attractive but information is questionable and the whole experience is trash.

gemini,bookmarks,chatgpt are some others. also libgen .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really depends on the subject, but for anything programming:

GeeksForGeeks for anything deeply CS-related. They give example code.
Stack Overflow, toxic as it is, is surprisingly helpful.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

ChatGPT for general knowledge and programming questions. Mostly straight to the point answers without 500 word drivel and 6 ad blocks on a single page for a 3 line answer you find on most blogs...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder whether ChatGPT can evaluate trustworthiness on the fly. A lot of the complexity of modern search engines is to try to prevent gaming the system. Maybe an AI heuristic would be less predictable/gamable

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't used this yet but Brave search Goggles feature let's you set filters on your searches.

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