For dev searches, Kagi. I switched during closed beta, and I couldn't be happier. The SEO'd GitHub or SO copypasta is gone by default, and it gives you the ability to ban or prioritize other sites in your searches. I honestly haven't had to do that much because their filters are great by default, though I did give MDN a bump so it's always at the top for web stuff.

Yeah, and for product reviews I only trust SlickDeals commenters.

This funny tweet mostly covers it:

> u can google ur questions about the world and get the CIA FBI answer or u can add "reddit" to the end of it and learn the truth

https://twitter.com/literallysofie/status/137189962449199513...

be weary of astroturfing. Reddit has had this problem for over a decade and increasing popularity means more shills using the site to sway opinions. Aged accounts, karma boosting and fake comments/engagements are all common techniques to propagate a desired narrative

Unfortunately the game of cat and mouse between marketing teams, and potential consumers simply trying to research, continues.

Unfortunately I think the more this knowledge is shared the more those sites will be spammed.

Look what happened to ad blockers - we told everyone about them and now so many sites have ad blocker blockers.

or use https://hn.algolia.com/

the problem with Reddit is for some stupid reason that has yet to be fixed and likely never will, Google shows reallllllly old reddit results but marks them as new.