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How do people find good information on the internet these days? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by catch22@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect.... It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It's no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it's early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

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[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I have researchers and journal rss's on feedly

[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really depends on the subject, but for anything programming:

  • GeeksForGeeks for anything deeply CS-related. They give example code.
  • Stack Overflow, toxic as it is, is surprisingly helpful.
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[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

people are gave some good answers.
it boils down to various large sites.
wikipedia(app) and reddit(app) are my top.
often time i just bang out a search and pinpoint the answer and trash the rest.
[deleted] stackexchanges and ycomb are some other popular sites.
quora used to seem attractive but information is questionable and the whole experience is trash.

gemini,bookmarks,chatgpt are some others. also libgen .

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't used this yet but Brave search Goggles feature let's you set filters on your searches.

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

ChatGPT for general knowledge and programming questions. Mostly straight to the point answers without 500 word drivel and 6 ad blocks on a single page for a 3 line answer you find on most blogs...

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I wonder whether ChatGPT can evaluate trustworthiness on the fly. A lot of the complexity of modern search engines is to try to prevent gaming the system. Maybe an AI heuristic would be less predictable/gamable

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm just trying asking multiple people who seem to be knowledgeable on the topic to see if I can get people to volunteer their recommendations.

[–] Temperche@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Use your critical thinking while reading to differentiate between scientifically sound claims and nonscientific marketing paroles.

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[–] frozencat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

i dont

[–] TechCodecPawx@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago

Quora (https://www.quora.com) is marketed as "A place to share knowledge and better understand the world".. You can ask questions and get them answered by experts, or you can find questions already answered by experts..

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

I started paying for a search engine called Kagi. Google and the other free search engines are completely fucking worthless these days.

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