Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.

als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Think about practical skills, though. Anything from repairing downspouts to rebuilding a bike wheel. You can do it, but it’s becoming notably harder to find good information on these things, especially when you have some specific situations that complicate things.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Booleans. Change the year to 2020, or remove certain sites/results.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That doesn’t help for things that are relatively new.

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There is plenty of different Booleans for those situations, but there’s not many new inventions in the last 5 years…

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  • Hazor@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For practical stuff like that, I find directly searching on YouTube to be the most useful. The wealth of free practical instruction available on YouTube is staggering. Unfortunately, that doesn’t help for those who want the information in written form, and some of it is by amateurs who have no idea what they’re doing nor know what the word “safety” means.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve found YouTube search results to be even worse. The DIY videos I need are buried beneath product reviews for adjacent things and completely unrelated topics that happened to hit certain keywords.

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      • bluemoon@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        i can literally type in a video title and a channel name and not get it. ditto for most searchengines looking at the youtube title.

        would YaCy help? i keep thinking it’s a floss peer to peer search engine. kinda like curating a fediverse instance? lmk if it’s a good fit for solving this

        https://yacy.net/

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