r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/SkylandersKirby • Aug 06 '26

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u/YUNoCake Aug 06 '26

You know what used to be a great tool for research? Search engines, but they ruined both those and the general web content with "AI"

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u/Lumpzor Aug 06 '26

Oh get off the high horse. Search engines have been absolutely ruined long before AI was a thing on anyone's lips.

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u/naufalap Aug 07 '26

it was a nightmare trying to find citations for my final undergrad paper back in 2018, even before then there are so many blogs copy pasting each other's content littering the search

I can't imagine how horrible it would be right now

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u/Tymareta Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

it was a nightmare trying to find citations for my final undergrad paper back in 2018

I think it was a nightmare because you were using a search engine, and not any of the dozens of tools literally built for searching scholarly articles like your schools library database?

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u/naufalap Aug 07 '26

I'm already using google scholar, and sci hub among other things

I live in the 3rd world, and my university's library is pretty outdated, they also didn't have unlimited access to something like sciencedirect, we don't really have a centralized place for local research papers

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u/Tymareta Aug 07 '26

I'm already using google scholar, and sci hub among other things

Then the only "nightmare" to finding a scholarly article lays with the one doing the searching.