I’m kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it’s 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they’re useless. It’s always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can’t come up with one since… you know that’s why I’m asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that’d be great too!

  • liv
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    1 year ago

    :) yeah it was cool.

    Sorry if I sounded disagreeable, I didn’t mean to be. I was just taking a trip down memory lane.

    I have to admit if it comes to anything in my field I mostly find good content through discussion groups too.

    But for me, in terms of personal interests and some other stuff, the 90s internet was full of static lists of links, even webrings etc. It was great because most people I knew irl who were my age weren’t online. I could only add people from other countries on Friendster because my flatmates refused to use it and my friends didn’t know what it was!

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      Sorry if I sounded disagreeable, I didn’t mean to be. I was just taking a trip down memory lane.

      No worries. Felt exactly like that. That’s why my mind went to how I felt when altavista’s babelfish appeared, I did the same thing for a few minutes before responding :-)

      • liv
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        31 year ago

        Babelfish was so impressive in its day. Felt like living in the future.

        Hey have you ever been to https://www.neocities.org? It’s reminiscent of geocities and kind of cool.

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          Hey have you ever been to https://www.neocities.org? It’s reminiscent of geocities and kind of cool.

          No, haven’t even realised that Sheldon Brown’s site was hosted there. I used to have a website up on geocities when I was a kid, browsing neocities brings back so many happy memories… Thanks!