“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

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    10 months ago

    I think it’s so fucking stupid how it it always defaults to “similar questions” instead of just showing us the actual answers.

    Just another example of throwing as much shit at an audience to drive up “engagement.”

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

    I disagree, the best place for such answers used to be Reddit, and Stack Exchange for the techy stuff. Quora always felt like cancer for some reason and I never really used it.

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      10 months ago

      I think that’s because Quora paywalls responses from volunteers, preventing others from seeing them unless they pay a subscription. Pretty scummy.

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      10 months ago

      Here’s hoping at some point search engines will return Lemmy links when people look for answers, but we’re not there yet

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        10 months ago

        Kagi now has a lens for focusing results from the Fediverse, I’ve seen it pull Lemmy links before!

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        10 months ago

        search engines are thoroughly crap right now. Abandon all hope that they will become better.