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.
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I started paying for a search engine called Kagi. Google and the other free search engines are completely fucking worthless these days.
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.
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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 .
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.
I have researchers and journal rss's on feedly
I’ve switched over to a paid search engine, kagi.com. There are no ads and the results are better than DDG.
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.
If you’re not paying for it, you are the product. Don’t knock it til you try it.
That's a very black and white view of the world and is not true.
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i dont
Use your critical thinking while reading to differentiate between scientifically sound claims and nonscientific marketing paroles.
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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...
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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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.
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..