• Raglesnarf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    my lil trick is I’d just add “Reddit” after most searches to find others in a similar situation or maybe a solution

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      1 year ago

      Up until the API debacle, that was my solution too. Now even that doesn’t work. It’s so bizarrely hard to look something up on the internet now.

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        1 year ago

        Does this work any better than DuckDuckGo? People praise DDG, but imo it’s results are pretty shit and I could never end to sticking with it. It can’t even get basic quoted text syntax correct.

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        1 year ago

        Oh fuck man, that’s a great find! Thank you for sharing that. It’s actually providing really substantiative results which I haven’t seen from Google for at least 5 years.

        I have definitely bookmarked that website, even though I use duck duck go I will probably use that as an alternate now.

        Another good search engine that’s less useful for searches but for providing information is of course Wolfram alpha