I've had tremendous trouble searching the modern Internet. If I want to find wisdom on a subjective question, or if I have a common problem, and I plug it into DuckDuckGo or Google, I end up with...
I've had tremendous trouble searching the modern Internet. If I want to find wisdom on a subjective question, or if I have a common problem, and I plug it into DuckDuckGo or Google, I end up with results that are almost exclusively "top-of-funnel" content from someone trying to sell me something, or low-effort blogs that subsist on ads and Amazon affiliate links. The answers I get are usually variants of "it depends" stretched over 10 paragraphs.
I've lately started taking such questions to BoardReader, and I've found on average much better results. It's not as good as a general search engine at interpreting queries, but the high quality of the content it indexes more than makes up for it. It lets me search the Internet of 10-15 years ago, by filtering out all the SEO-optimized "content" and leaving just the opinions of real humans.
This is such a cool idea, and I'm glad to have something other than Google to look for stuff with! Kinda reminds me of wiby, the search engine for old 90's style websites. Is there a way to filter...
This is such a cool idea, and I'm glad to have something other than Google to look for stuff with! Kinda reminds me of wiby, the search engine for old 90's style websites. Is there a way to filter Reddit from Board Reader though? It currently dominates most of the search results on Board Reader, and I can already do that with Google if need be...
I've had tremendous trouble searching the modern Internet. If I want to find wisdom on a subjective question, or if I have a common problem, and I plug it into DuckDuckGo or Google, I end up with results that are almost exclusively "top-of-funnel" content from someone trying to sell me something, or low-effort blogs that subsist on ads and Amazon affiliate links. The answers I get are usually variants of "it depends" stretched over 10 paragraphs.
I've lately started taking such questions to BoardReader, and I've found on average much better results. It's not as good as a general search engine at interpreting queries, but the high quality of the content it indexes more than makes up for it. It lets me search the Internet of 10-15 years ago, by filtering out all the SEO-optimized "content" and leaving just the opinions of real humans.
Looks neat! I notice the link is not secure, but changing it to https works as expected.
This is such a cool idea, and I'm glad to have something other than Google to look for stuff with! Kinda reminds me of wiby, the search engine for old 90's style websites. Is there a way to filter Reddit from Board Reader though? It currently dominates most of the search results on Board Reader, and I can already do that with Google if need be...