Search engines have been dropping in quality significantly within the past decade, and especially within this past year. The noise to signal ratio has been frankly painful.

Can you please share some resources you use when trying to find answers to technical questions?

For example, STEM, academia, engineering, programming, etc.

  • invertedspear@lemm.ee
    35·
    1 year ago

    Lots of quoting for specific phrases. Instead of searching like I used to using what I feel are relevant key words:

    react table sortable I now have to search for something like “Best sortable table component for react” This will lead me to some bullshit listicle that will then give me at least a few items to review, then I take the best one and start typing the components name vs and seeing what auto completes after vs

    It’s all become a game and I hate it.