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This is massively hyperbolic. The internet is full of great resources from authoritative sources.
by randomsearch 7y ago
This is massively hyperbolic. The internet is full of great resources from authoritative sources.
- lmm 7y agoHow do you find an authoritative source on the web, if you're not one of the older generation who figured them out earlier? Google directs you to a handful of big-name sites and a large pile on the spectrum between blogs and content farms. Facebook will only give you other Facebook pages. When I tried to track my passport application last year, my government passport agency was only available via Twitter. Good luck getting to an actual authoritative organisation that runs their own website, or a college professor who actually has specialist knowledge about the subject.
- whiddershins 7y agoI do find it incredibly hard to find anything resembling a trustworthy source of info on a bunch of topics. Travel? Full of nonsense Diet? Don’t even try Exercise? Maybe Health/Medical? No Anything I might purchase? Depending on the category, everything is an advert by someone who has barely done anything with the product.
- randomsearch 7y agoTravel - depends what you want, but Lonely Planet has plenty of info that's reasonable. Travel safety - foreign office. Health - NHS, NIH, American Dietetics Association... tons of public service bodies are out there.
- LoSboccacc 7y agoevery month a new site that lift content off stack overflow and somehow manages to top it in Google results is born, and that's an extremely niche audience with laser focused searches. I can't fathom what the web looks like to the untechnicals that don't know how to filter by domain or add keywords to remove the most egregious spam sure the good stuff is out there of you know how to find it, but the discovery is getting worse by the years