For me, yes. These days, pretty much all my searches are prefixed with specific domains, such as `site:news.ycombinator.com`. It's a small whitelist of domains

For me, yes. These days, pretty much all my searches are prefixed with specific domains, such as `site:news.ycombinator.com`. It's a small whitelist of domains like, reddit, HN, stackoverflow, twitter, wikipedia, etc. If I don't do this, I usually don't get what I'm looking for. Instead, I'm overwhelmed by low-quality self-branding content on Medium, dev.to, towardsdatascience, Quora, etc. There are too many of these now. Overall, my search has shifted to largely social sites, especially semi-anonymous ones like HN/reddit. The upvoted content (and comments) I find there tends to be miles better than anything Google surfaces on their first page. This has definitely changed over the recent years, it used to not be like this.