SEO has made it incredibly hard to find answers without getting spammed by news and blog sites. Places like ask Lemmy help democratize answers through upvotes and downvotes so the quality is higher.
Do you know of any hidden gems for search engines or Q&A sites that contain highly relevant answers without much noise?
I agree, since the heavy SEO push has come about, Bing chat works the best. SEO has ruined search engines, it’s a little like Taco Bell using sand as a filler.
I have heard it is like malware to get rid of macOS lol, I actually installed it, but never uninstalled it because I formatted my Mac for an unrelated case.
In areas where I have expertise, reddit has shown itself to be incredibly uninformed. The stupidest answer usually receives the not upvotes. I would not trust a single answer from that site.
I don't think ChatGPT fits there, sometimes it just gives you some good practice or very general answers that won't be specific for your current setup (being an OS, or ROM or whatever).
The chatgpt answers don’t cut it for me, these companies all made this fucking problem in the first place and now they want us to buy their tech-hype bullshit to fix it. Fuck them, same thing that caused Reddit to do what it’s done.
Perplexity.ai has largely replaced Google and Bing for me. It searches the Internet (including reddit), asks for clarification if necessary, then summarises it all with sources cited. The free tier currently gives 5x gpt4 copilot searches per rolling 4 hours. Like most ai chat, it's less of a search engine, and more an 'answer' engine.
As for q and a, reddit, though you'll have to filter the funny / misleading comments out. Quora is just weird, I don't like the vibe there.
I personally use brave search, it has worked very well in the 6ish months I've used it. Not only for privacy but the results are solid and I've noticed improvements from feedback in the community. If it has enough data it does have an AI generated summary as well which I've found to be very useful for precise questions.