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How do people find good information on the internet these days? (self.technology)

submitted 2 years ago by catch22 to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I actually started to add perplexity.ai to my list of tools because it shows sources in addition to the generated results and it's able to search the internet.

That way I get a quick summary of topics and am able to verify the results much faster.

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

i dont

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I’ve switched over to a paid search engine, kagi.com. There are no ads and the results are better than DDG.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Paying for a search engine is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard lol. DDG is just better and I question what you use to guage better results, especially since you already spent money and are already susceptible to bias.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If you’re not paying for it, you are the product. Don’t knock it til you try it.

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[–] TechCodecPawx -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..

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

When a topic is hard to find, I use Perplexity.ai

The AI is pretty good at summarizing,and giving you multiple links with the reason why it is relevant.

But it is pretty slow, so only good if regular searches don't find what you are looking for.

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