Research in the Era of Bad Search Results - In search of the new "Google Fu"

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Michael Jacks0n said:
Cross-posted from the other search thread in this forum:

I just stumbled upon this on Twitter, and it's actually really frightening. It's also rather jarring to see the comments with people talking about their search woes with Google for searching for such things as "violence against women in 2020" or "happy white woman" in Google vs. Duckduckgo:


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>following propagandists
That faggot just drops that image with no source or anything, and the retards there lap it up.

Well searching the words (in duckduckgo) shows that the source is project veritas, which is probably why he didn't post a source. Veritas has straight up lied in the past, when they published the "exposé" on how planned parenthood was allowing people to run underage brothels. After telling someone at planned parenthood that they were running an underage brothel, they used the fact they weren't kicked out straight away as proof!!! Planned parenthood was cool with child rape.

Completely ignoring the fact that straight away after they left, he called a relative of his in the police, and reported the entire thing.

Fuck that potato nigger, James O'Queef.

That white man/black man thing is fucked though, I don't know what the fuck google is doing, but it's almost like they want racial tension.
 
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The biggest issue that people encounter when looking things up is relying on a singular source. If there's a silver lining to Google shooting itself in the foot, it's that more people are starting to diversify their web traffic off the regular top 10 sites. I personally rotate pretty equally between Yandex, Bing and Startpage for general queries, depending on what each site's strong point is focused towards. I've had very few reasons to use Google maps over OpenStreetMaps, and even Yandex translate isn't too bad, so it works as an alternative to Google translate for most languages. As far as tech related searches, I can usually find the answer to bugs by going to [insert distro here] wiki, although I'm by no means tech savvy on actual problems that programmers and power users face.
melty said:
For me personally it's not tech questions, but following online trails. I cannot get decent search results for people's usernames, but there are "username availability checkers" where you can pop in usernames and they will pull up all the sites where those names are taken. You can then go from there and check those sites individually. That's just one example of needing to know beforehand where to start your search.
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I think people like us are going to be forced to go back to the 90s/early 00s solution of basically compiling our own links pages that link to sites that are actually useful and sharing them, unless duckduckgo improves further. I also use the duckduckgo first, Google second method now and duckduckgo is no longer noticeably worse than Google.
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Here are some neat tools I picked up from places like /baph/ a long time ago.
 
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