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.

• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There is in bikes.

        I didn’t really want to get into details of the particular thing that prompted this post, because then there’s going to be too many people posting suggestions they think are helpful, and that would be missing the point. Suffice it to say that I’m cobbling together pieces from YouTube, forum posts, and old Reddit threads that, IMO, I would expect to see more consolidated. In times past, I think it would be. I do think I’ll get there in the end, but it feels much harder to get everything together than it used to be.

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• Hazor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve tried YaCy. Its results are worse than Altavista. Might be OK for searching internal documentation at an organization, but not for the public internet.

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