[TimBurr]

This might be a different Ask HN, but does anyone have suggestions on avoiding the content farm stuff? Searching reddit works, but amounts to being trapped in a walled garden.

I've found a lot of great stuff on random independent websites (i.e. https://woodgears.ca/, http://gizmology.net/) that have no Reddit presence. Filtering those out is a great loss.

Something like the Yahoo Directory (hierarchical tree of hand-sorted topics) could work, but that's long gone.

Thoughts?

[mitchdoogle]

Sometimes I visit miilionshort.com to search for something when google isn't cutting it. They have options to leave out the top 100/1000/100000/1000000 websites (By Alexa rank I believe), so I will try playing with the options to get something useful. It's not always fruitful, but I've found many nice things this way that would've been buried on google.

[mythrwy]

I've started going directly to page 4 on Google searches if I don't see Google's scraped answer at the top.

Starting at 4 seems to cut a lot of the SEO and content farms.

[ChrisLTD]

Google used to offer the ability to filter out domains from your results, but they haven't for years now.

I suppose a client side extension could do the trick. It might be a good option for a side project if anyone is feeling generous with their time.

[dalmo3]

There are browser extensions that bring back the "Discussions" filter that Google removed a few years ago. Unfortunately niche forums aren't really popular these days so you end up with older results.

[muzani]

I'm actually using Bing/DDG more because there's less content farms. It gives me less relevant results most of the time, but discovery is better.