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How do I find useful content on the internet in 2023?
I would "just google it" but that's pointless.
- emrah 4y agoWhy not ask chatgpt?
- epakai 4y agoBecause it will tell you blatantly wrong things. Like the difference in SBus card compatibility between sun4c and sun4m machines is because the sun4m machines have a PCI bus! Also it doesn't provide links to actual content. ChatGPT as a search replacement generally increases my time investment.
- henly 4y agoWhy not kys in minecraft?
- GourSE 4y agoYou simply state a dumb statement, comes the correct ones.
- musicale 4y agoIf there isn't already, there should be a phrase for this - maybe "expert fishing", "strategic naïvety", or "answer-directed trolling." The key insight seems to be that internet people seem more likely to correct you than to help you, so you phrase your query to attract helpful correction.
- cookiengineer 4y agoAlternative search engines like wiby, searx, etc?
- Venkatesh10 4y agoDefine "useful"
- taubek 4y agoDepends on what you are looking for.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoI probe humans. When I am on (HN | Reddit) and I find an interesting discussion I ask the person to tell me more, link articles, blog posts, and textbooks.
- akg_67 4y agoA lot of /r/Ask* subreddits are heavily moderated and very good for in-depth knowledgeable replies. I have collected over 175 books to read just browsing /r/AskHistorians, /r/AskEconomics, /r/AskSocialScience, /r/AskScience, /r/AskScienceDiscussion, /r/IRStudies, /r/AskEngineers, /r/AskPhysics.
- ChildOfChaos 4y agoAlso great places to be active in, asking questions to experts or people that know more in these fields, I feel like this is one of the great benefits of the internet, but often it's full of noise, subreddits like this are pure gold for getting information from. Even just doing a google search with what you are wanting and added Reddit to the end, therefore you are getting answers to the question from people talking about it, rather than content farms.
- rpastuszak 4y agoSame here, I used to have a rule that at certain times I’d switch to those subreddits as soon as I opened HN. /r/AskAnthropology is a decent sub btw.
- rchaud 4y agoWhat is your definition of 'useful'? Are you looking to answer a question quickly, or looking for multiple sources on a particular topic? Why is Googling it pointless? Google is still pretty good outside of topics that automatically pull in blogspam, like "what's the best rewards credit card?".
- coretx 4y agoBy investing in it.