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Personally, when I know that a certain topic is of high value to advertisers, I don't even bother googling anymore, and try to find someone qualified instead. For example, I recently was trying to look up theory behind working out, how differenr muscles work, how nutrition works and all that - but there're so many people who're trying to sell their courses, apps, books and stuff, that I have no idea how to go around looking for unbiased and at least semi-scientific source of information.

Edit: I would be thankful for pointers as to why this comment was downvoted, so I can increase quality of my content in the future.

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Thankfully we still have journals and conference papers. Look for the ones with high impact factor and go from there. That's what I did when I was looking into creatine supplementation.

You can't even ask experts for their opinion since they are the ones selling the stuff!

Good advice - but in my experience, reading the latest research in any field requires a lot of more basic knowledge first.

That's a problem now only AI could solve. All other attempts at non-AI algorithms are futile. We need to be able to search through a curated internet that looks somewhat like a mix of Wikipedia and the old Yahoo directory and has to be tailored to each individual user search goals (I unlike you may be interested in commercial workout products). AI is the only "curator" capable of ranking and selecting results with such abstract filters.

Just like Facebook's AI is solving the feed problem? Do you trust the proprietary machine learning black box, that even the creators don't completely understand, ran by a for-profit corporation to decide what information you consume?

It's not like I have a better suggestion, but AI is definitely not a silver bullet for this.

I wasn't think corporate AI actually. Something between Wikipedia not-for-profit wikipedians and personal AI (browser or independently managed). AI is definitely not a silver bullet, but algorithm and human-based solutions are out of the question, so AI is probably the best option moving forward.

Facebook's so-called "AI algorithms" only optimize for advertisement money, not for good feed experience. Hardly a good example.

If you're worried about ad money in a scope of 10 next years, one will be related to the other.

Same here. I want to find a good and affordable high-protein and low-carb diet which is sustainable over months, years, or maybe a lifetime, and yet Google fails me every time. It's always some bright-smiling 22-year old chick (as if they need a diet before 30), or some old guy who discovered how his diet fixed his knee problem, or an Indian guy who is happy to tell us how everybody else is bullshitting us but hey, HE HAS THE ANSWERS. Etc. to infinity.

Also nobody wants to give you an affordable diet. Hello, I can't pay for salmon 3 times a week, okay? I know it contains an easier to digest fat, fine! Can't you give me some alternatives?

It's infuriating. But Google optimizes for advertisement money and there are known "cheats" on how to be on top in Google searches which aren't well addressed to this day.

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