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Good idea. You could start with fitness. Lots of high-quality information out there that’s entirely, 100% inaccessible via google. Over COVID, I did the whole

Good idea. You could start with fitness. Lots of high-quality information out there that’s entirely, 100% inaccessible via google. Over COVID, I did the whole fitness thing from a few different angles (overhauled diet, trained for a marathon, now lifting weights a lot). I found I could only find good info by going directly to a trusted source - literally, typing http://www http://www. like I’m in the 90s or something. This is the exact issue a search engine should solve, but Google doesn’t.

paulcole 5y ago
Is your trusted source the same as my trusted source which is the same as my neighbor’s trusted source which is the same as my Australian cousin’s trusted source? If not, at least one of us is going to hate this new search engine.
thewarrior 5y ago
Could you share your trusted sources ? Human search engine :P
- ok123456 5y ago
  https://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=tfannon https://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=tfannon
- curiousllama 5y ago
  JPG on Tik Tok, and Geoffrey verity schofield on instagram/quora/buy his book.
nefitty 5y ago
This is a problem I'm working on. What sorts of unique things did you do that Google failed at? Maybe you read through discussion sites or got tips from books or something like that
- curiousllama 5y ago
  Social media and trial and error. I knew a bit, and asked some friends for advice. I used that to find people who said stuff I thought made sense on Quora, Tik Tok, and Instagram (ie they agreed with what I knew to be true and false, so I could assume the other stuff they said was likely to be true as well). I tried what they said, found what worked, and went all in when I saw results. Importantly, this was bottom up: it was largely recommendation engines suggesting people I then filtered through for what I wanted (running, bodybuilding) vs didn’t (traditional weight loss). I couldn’t specify what I wanted, or it would be garbage SEO spam.
  - nefitty 5y ago
    That's a new angle to me. I rely on pseudonymous content like Reddit and HN. It does make sense to look for people or groups focused on a larger topic like fitness. That helps a lot! Thank you.

paulcole 5y ago

Is your trusted source the same as my trusted source which is the same as my neighbor’s trusted source which is the same as my Australian cousin’s trusted source? If not, at least one of us is going to hate this new search engine.

thewarrior 5y ago

Could you share your trusted sources ? Human search engine :P

ok123456 5y ago
https://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=tfannon https://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=tfannon
curiousllama 5y ago
JPG on Tik Tok, and Geoffrey verity schofield on instagram/quora/buy his book.

nefitty 5y ago

This is a problem I'm working on. What sorts of unique things did you do that Google failed at? Maybe you read through discussion sites or got tips from books or something like that

curiousllama 5y ago
Social media and trial and error. I knew a bit, and asked some friends for advice. I used that to find people who said stuff I thought made sense on Quora, Tik Tok, and Instagram (ie they agreed with what I knew to be true and false, so I could assume the other stuff they said was likely to be true as well). I tried what they said, found what worked, and went all in when I saw results. Importantly, this was bottom up: it was largely recommendation engines suggesting people I then filtered through for what I wanted (running, bodybuilding) vs didn’t (traditional weight loss). I couldn’t specify what I wanted, or it would be garbage SEO spam.
- nefitty 5y ago
  That's a new angle to me. I rely on pseudonymous content like Reddit and HN. It does make sense to look for people or groups focused on a larger topic like fitness. That helps a lot! Thank you.