Tell me about your methods and sites for finding anything and everything you look for on the internet. Information, normal day-to-day searches, investigation, research, NSFW, gore—anything and everything. Be as detailed as possible.
Also, when a site you normally use goes down or becomes unavailable, what do you do next to fulfill your needs in that area? What alternative sites, tools, or methods do you use, and how do you go about finding them?
I don’t know. I’m having great difficulty finding an Ask comm where people ask sincere questions that can’t be answered with a simple search.
I ain’t telling you shit, fed.
I decided to stop using Google and YouTube for this month (i.e. September 2026), so now I’m using DuckDuckGo.
Google seems to have gotten worse, and as a Canadian I’m a bit ticked how they caved in on Trump over the “Lake America” thing.
I also use Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikidata ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page ).
I search for it.
Kagi
Is there something in particular you’re looking for?
Yah got him he’s a fed his fuck up " Most of the time it’s disappointing and I don’t get anything particularly useful, but sometimes we actually hit the mark"
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Yes, I mean pretty much everything, as I mentioned in the post. Whenever I’m trying to find a solution to a problem, I usually search for it myself first. But, as you probably already know, searching doesn’t always give you exactly what you’re looking for.
Then I usually try asking around on Discord, IRC, Matrix, and other communities. Most of the time it’s disappointing and I don’t get anything particularly useful, but sometimes we actually hit the mark and find exactly what I was looking for.
So I figured you might know some other methods, sites, communities, or tricks for finding things on the internet that I haven’t come across yet.
Fuckin fed right there ain’t ya?
One time I was in another country and wanted to find a club.
So naturally I found a local, and asked them to tell me where everything on the continent was.
Because surely that was better than just asking for what I needed.
“I want you to give me all your info so I can have AI make a report so I can take credit”
Duckduckgo serves my needs 90% of the time. Sometimes it takes a bit to find a search term that yields the results I’m looking for. I also have an rss feed I’ve been curating for years where I get my news. It’s got a good mix of neutral sources and opinionated ones across the political spectrum along with specific topics I want to remain current on.
When I’m doing research or more open ended investigations I start with wikipedia and go through the sources for the topic I’m interested in. From time to time I will ask Claude or ChatGPT for sources and they’re both usually good enough for my purposes though I never just take their word for it.
Now we’re getting somewhere you’re right: DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia are good. I’m also a fan of asking AI chatbots, as you mentioned Claude and ChatGPT, when you want to get popular opinions on the internet without crawling through Reddit and Twitter for them and getting to the same results.
Try asking Grok for information and conversate in the form of saving if you ask for something and the chatbot flags it as not appropriate.
I have no interest in popular opinions, I much prefer to make up my own mind about things. I do sometimes search Reddit for answers to specific (usually tech related) questions but I have never found a use case for twitter, even before Elon Musk ruined what most people liked about it. Anything important happening on twitter/X will be picked up and reported on by one of the sources in my RSS feed and the rest is just noise.
As far as Grok goes, that’s a hard no from me. Even setting aside the fact I try to avoid anything Elon Musk is involved in, Grok is objectively the worst AI on the market. It has a clear white christian nationalist bias and is comically wrong more than half the time.
I go to Google to google myself and I take the mouse and shove it up my butt.
Found Richard Gere’s alt account
First I search on google, using the full prompt as search string. Then I check all the resulting pages for their likelihood of being AI-generated using an AI. This step is very important. In each of the 100 most likely AI-generated websites, I go to the contact information subpage. There I can find either a web form for sending a message or an e-mail address. I use this form or e-mail information to send a message that contains the full prompt. This step should be repeated 10 times to accommodate for packet loss. After this is done, the first word of the website’s home page contains a part of the thing I wanted to search. This technique works very well, I learned it in academia and told all my friends about it, it works excellent for them as well.
Wow, look this big red flag!
Fuckin glowies.
