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by mad182 1627 days ago
Exactly.

I don't think its only the google search algorithm to blame, this has a lot to do with the extinction of old school forums and blogs. These days large part of the real discussions and posts without financial motivation have moved to facebook, whatsapp groups, discord, slack and other places behind logins and paywalls which google can't index. What's left in public are mostly blogs and websites motivated by affiliate or ad revenue and SEO'ed to death. So there simply is much higher garbage to valuable content ratio in the public, indexable web.
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nefitty 1627 days ago
95% of my Google searches are suffixed with "MDN" or "site:reddit.com".

If I'm looking for something particularly technical I'll search HN. That especially helps when I feel at my wit's end about some general concept like "sinuses" or "parenting". It's more common to get my mind blown by some offhanded revelation dropped by an HN commenter.

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mad182 1627 days ago
Same, I also often use site:reddit.com Thankfully Reddit is still left mostly indexable, but most of the other sites where discussions take place are not.
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