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tante Jun 17, 2023

First it was: "Search is bad now, I'll just use Reddit to find answers.". Now Reddit is trying to kill itself while the search engines inject falsehood generators into their pipelines for weird reasons. Finding information is gonna get a lot harder.

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kainisenni Jun 17, 2023

@tante
I have mostly given up on search engines and usually search Wikipedia or Wiktionary directly now.
For things not there I usually just give up...

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@richh has moved

@kainisenni @tante Indeed. But worth noting that en.wikipedia is very US-centric. Seen an article about an intl sports event in Belgium tagged for deletion “not notable, no results in google news”. I go to google.BE and check Belgian news. Boom, results. There’s a portion of idle editors whose criteria for inclusion is “reported in US media”. Meanwhile US topics are ad-nauseum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marksmanship_badges_(United_States))

Marksmanship badges (United States) - Wikipedia