Hi lemmy. One time I was on YouTube and I wanted to learn more about my latest interest, neuroscience, so I entered into the search bar “Neuroscience” and every single result was from self help gurus.
Oftentimes, I will attempt to find information for something im curious about. More often then not, my search will be slowed by thousands of shitty SEO optimized/self-help guru made/absolutely utterly useless “Top 10 Things to so for X” content. This happens on pretty much every large platform I have ever searched on ever.
have gotten better at googling and searching for the results I want(searching “neuroscience lecture” instead of “neuroscience”) But I can only improve my googling skills so much, so that’s why I wanted to ask a few questions:
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How do I search the internet/google for blogs/forums/media from experts easily? Is there a chrome extension to remove SEO overoptimized results? Do I need to use a different search engine?
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Are there any approaches I can take that apply to more then just google?
Some search engine do not index page on their visit rate or activity but on the contrary look for “forgotten” page, my favorite is https://search.marginalia.nu/.
Another way of searching for interesting page would be the use of internet link collection, one of my favorite being https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/. But while the links and pages are often interesting it’s hard to look for a specific subject.
I paid for Kagi for a while and many of my coworkers use it. It’s a solid and growing engine that’s getting a a lot right re: creating good UX and generating search results (which should be the goal of a search engine, *sigh).
That said, l use SearxNG daily nowadays because it’s decentralized and privacy-focused. You can use any of the public instances or host your own if you like.
Here’s an example of the search results for “Neuroscience” on the instance I use.
Due to how shitty our world is… you just slowly accumulate trusted sources. Google has no motivation to give you a reliable news source that’d compete with their incredibly anticompetitive news tab.
As a tech person I hang around on HackerNews a lot and have found some good sources through that.
Go to Wikipedia and look at the references. The Wikipedia editor credo is “show don’t tell”. Meaning don’t explain it. Summarize something that does, and link it.
Also, donate to Wikipedia.
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