To combat these issues, the author suggests several workarounds, including adding 'hackernews' to improve tech-related search results, limiting search results to an older date or month, using tools like Marginalia and Kagi, using longer keywords, and trying different search engines. Despite these efforts, the author concludes that the quality of search results is poor and finding small web forums and blogs is increasingly difficult.
Key takeaways:
- The author criticizes the lack of site diversity in search results, with the same few sites appearing for nearly every term.
- There is a perceived overemphasis on Reddit in search results, to the detriment of other forums.
- The author finds too many non-related articles and SEO-optimized junk in search results.
- The author suggests workarounds such as adding specific terms to the search, limiting search results to an old date/month, and using alternative search engines.