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Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting, I still see it pretty consistently in the first few results in my experience and usually with a pretty recent one too

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• magic_lobster_party@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What options are there to use instead? I think they’re still often having the best results, and are usually near the top.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess I’ve moved to the part of my career where Stack Overflow isn’t that helpful, but I’ve found a lot of utility in searching issues on GitHub and Reddit posts.

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    • fuzzzerd@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m right there with you. It’s nice to know it’s been there if I needed it. I don’t find myself there very often anymore and when I do it’s often to compare official docs to other ways to approach something or because the getting started section of the official docs felt weird or wrong.

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    • Anon518@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m grateful that Stackoverflow is a valid alternative to reddit for many things. Fuck reddit.

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• nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But are they losing the first positions because they’re losing relevance, or is it due to other sites abusing seo and search engines abusing from advertising results?

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say the former.

    Many queries don’t find relevant questions, and the relevant questions are often not answered properly. I often find the exact same problem I’m having, but the answers are just a bunch of those CV padders that post completely irrelevant answers based on a buzzword they saw while skimming the question.

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When I do find relevant answers, lately they’re all so old that they no longer work, or rely on now deprecated functionality of a library or system.

      Finding code snippets for interfacing with Azure through PowerShell is a crapshoot because Microsoft keeps deprecating different PowerShell modules for it.

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