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It is the new Experts Exchange.

Experts Exchange and Quora combined are the reason I stopped using Google as a primary source of technical searches.

If you don't mind me asking, what are you using now? I'm getting increasingly fed up with google dropping words from my searches.

It gets ridiculous when it even drops the damn programming language or the database, as if knowing how hibernate works was going to help me with the go mongo driver.

Straight to stackoverflow, serverfault, superuser, or unix.stackexchange.com and search using keywords and tags. Added bonus: sometimes I find an unanswered related question to which I do know the answer and can help someone else out.

Then I search DuckDuckGo. Its SEO garbage isn't nearly as bad as Google is... yet...

If I don't find anything there then I'll ask real humans: coworkers, slack or discord chats on the topics of the tags, friends, some technical-smart family.

Yup. I have an adblocker, but after the first answer (which was crap) I got a link to the question "What is jam made from?" and then got prompted with a modal to prompt me to make an account. Never again.

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