[Yokohiii]

Even before the AI era I slowly became less and less successful with google searches. Everything - non trivial / specific - that I looked for turned into a chore and I quickly gave up.

LLMs, that can supply valid links, give me a completely different variety of results. Either I am too dumb to search manually, too impatient or google search is just broken, but Gemini usually gives me something I can work with. I just wished I could blacklist some sources like medium.

[baaron]

Checkout Kagi. You can blacklist sites. You can also weight certain sites higher than others. I've been using it for almost a year at this point. When I'm forced to use Google at work, I am legitimately less effective at finding the information I need.

[footy]

Google has been going downhill for a decade now.

I've been paying for Kagi for like four years. I like it but also resent that it's something I pay for now when I remember how good Google was 20 years ago.

[ori_b]

Google search is just broken.

[mohamedkoubaa]

Maybe SEO-maxxers will finally leave it alone now if the median consumer trusts the corporate models

[esseph]

-site:medium.com in the search bar

This will remove any results from there for you.

Alternatively, site:news.ycombinator.com would search this website explicitly.