2026-09-16 02:45 UTC
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@rhamph@awful.systems 2026-09-16 03:13
My non-helpful answer is to resign myself to accepting that whatever I was searching for isn’t that important. More practically, finding human-written work is the thing that marginalia-search.com excels at, although you might have to scroll a bit to find a relevant result.
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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-09-16 04:34
Really bumping up against this taking a math class. It’s not just the ick feeling of getting slapped with a Google AI rendition that may or may not be accurate. There’s at least 4 or 5 other vendors, Chegg and the like, doing the same thing but keeping their explanations behind a login wall. That’s the entire first page of Google search results now. Of course, simply copying and pasting questions from a textbook is a terrible search strategy. But I still wish I could find a durable math Q&A community that wasn’t slop-adjacent.
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@zogwarg@awful.systems 2026-09-17 05:48
I wonder if there’s a market for RevivingYahoo^TM^, which in some ways was more link curation than search engine. When searching for examples of commands, I’ve sometimes been resorting to telling google to restrict itself to pdf files of specific websites (example redhat, with sometimes useful commands for server maintenance broadly) It’s a bit sad that it’s not just search that has gone downhill, but new documentation too (I swear Microsoft Azure documentation is getting worse).
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@Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2026-09-17 10:32
At this point, when I’m looking up something that hits me with pagefuls of links to barely relevant vibecoded scam websites, I’d rather ask a fucking chatbot. At least it’s usually (?) able to give me links to real websites. Very much a choose your flavour of infuriating slop situation.