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2026-07-02 15:47 UTC
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@liberty@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-02 16:02
@xeroxed@mastodon.social Of course! For some things, I'll throw it in DuckDuckGo and call it good, but since that's becoming unreliable, I'm having to find alternative ways of finding information. For example: - Encyclopediac information -> Wikipedia - Rust crates -> crates.io or lib.rs - Scientific papers -> library databases I also find myself relying on documentation and source code more often when I'm programming. You can use custom search engines with your browser. DuckDuckGo also supports "bangs" with an exclamation mark, so "!w Zig" will look up "Zig" on Wikipedia. I don't use these as extensively as I'd like to, but they're becoming increasingly important as the quality of standard search engines become less useful.