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If you don’t remember a topic well enough to google the details when you need them, have you really learned it?
by user3939382 4y ago
If you don’t remember a topic well enough to google the details when you need them, have you really learned it?
- gzer0 4y agoMore often than not, I have found the Google results for highly specialized topics and areas that I know well enough to Google, but not remember all of the details, to be very sub-par, superficial, or rudimentary in nature. It seems like there is a lack of good quality highly specialized information that flies under the radar or just isn't indexed properly. I have now turned to hn.algolia.com [1] for certain specific searches, as well as in the process of downloading entire archives of books (PDFs and ePUBs) that I will be running OCRmyPDF [2] on just to ensure search-ability. This way, I know for a fact I can search for almost any topic of relevance and it will be indexed/cached on my local machine. Google has gotten terrible at displaying information that is very niche and or highly specialized and I want to take that control back into my own hands. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ [2] https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html