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by kwertyoowiyop 1175 days ago
Reddit is better than Google lately. I’d pay $5/month for a curated search that removes the SEO crap, even if the filtering was a bit too aggressive.
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I mean that is a pretty low bar. Outside of reddit, "institutional" results like wikipedia or cdc.gov etc, and the occasional living fossil niche forum that has miraculously survived to this day, I can't say I've seen very many relevant results.

Usually I defer to reddit but sometimes even that is junk, and google tends to misdate ancient reddit threads as more recent. The best is when I identify a relevant forum on the first pass. Then I can append the site:forum.com tag and actually search the forum, because its internal search is probably ancient rate limited junk still.

Google makes a great search tool for parsing an individual or handful of websites like this, but its terrible of course when parsing the firehose of the modern web.