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Unless you happen to already know of a specialized forum for a topic, it increasingly feels like Reddit and Wikipedia are the only parts of the internet that ar
by harimau777 3y ago
Unless you happen to already know of a specialized forum for a topic, it increasingly feels like Reddit and Wikipedia are the only parts of the internet that are still valuable; everything else is content farms or SEO spam.
Even then I'm finding that Wikipedia's quality has dropped dramatically in recent years. As they become more zealous about only including "encyclopedic information", I'm increasingly finding pages that have had all of their useful information sucked out of them.
- b112 3y agoeverything else is content farms or SEO spam. No! The rest of the content is still there, loads of it. Google simple has stopped caring, no it is not "too hard", they just don't care enough. Case in point, Google even aids in crappy results, by aliasing your search terms, preventing precision, putting monetization above all else. Google sucks. SEO/spam is not worse, Google is, they know it, they do not care, because so far it has no affected profit negatively.
- harimau777 3y agoGood point. Do you find that other search engines like Kagi resolve the issue?
- b112 3y agoI tried Kagi and liked it. I also find using 'verbatim' searches on Google helps, although that seems to be broken more and more often.
- Eisenstein 3y agoBrave search is better than Google or bing or duckduckgo, I find. About equivalent to kagi.
- ColinHayhurst 3y agoFor alternatives to Google here is a graphical network of web search engines and proxies: https://www.searchenginemap.com/ https://www.searchenginemap.com/ (desktop display only)
- malfist 3y agoI feel like everything has turned into the blogospam that recipe blogs are known for. I searched the other day for how to use github's personal access tokens. The first 4 results are all unhelpful blogspam. Pages and pages of text talking about personal access tokens. No details on how to use it. Not a single snippet of command line, nothing.
- Ancalagon 3y agoNot to mention half the first page results are sponsored ads
- morkalork 3y agoUgh, I can see it now: How to use virtual environments with jupyter lab. Before going into the details of this tutorial, let me tell you about the first time I ever used a computer. My father was working as a travelling shoe salesmen at the time...
- deprecative 3y agoIf the content is there but is not accessible (findable) then it may as well not be there. The Internet is content farms and SEO spam strictly because that's what can be found and accessed by the overwhelming majority of people. A non-indexed blog or site, or one that is sufficiently low on the results list, may as well not exist. It's like farting when you're home alone. You farted but nobody but you gets to enjoy the intestinal perfume.
- milldredgold5 3y ago[flagged]