The Fall of Stack Overflow

Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by stavros on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:52AM (#36859699)

And it's always the result I want.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by OJFord on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:00AM (#36859763)

Then consider using DDG & '!w term', or some other method (searching Wikipedia, extension, I think Firefox has something engine-agnostic built-in) instead?

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by stavros on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:01AM (#36859774)

Oh I do use DDG. I think it might suffer from the same problem, actually, since now I'm wondering why I see Wikipedia results very far down in Google when I don't really use Google.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by prmoustache on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:51PM (#36866446)

The comment above mention using !w in your search to look only in wikipedia since you say it is nearly always what you are looking for.

I would say at this point you could just use wikipedia as your default search engine.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by stavros on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:00PM (#36866617)

Yeah, I do do that for those things, but when I don't, I've noticed a decline in quality.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by TRiG_Ireland on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:09AM (#36860594)

You can add a keyword search in Firefox.

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