(Research as in finding info, not creating it)
I feel like it’s so much harder to find the right places to get info from when so much of the web has been enshittified by AI blog grifts & sponsors these days. I do not want my only source to be a Wikipedia page - that sucks & I’m always left desiring more from it! (Not to mention more controversial aspects often go un- or barely mentioned for ‘impartiality’ reasons)
Maybe it’s just a me problem & I’m not being analytical or probing enough as a lot of my former hyperfixs were fictional & facilitated partly through social media. I just really miss going down rabbitholes & failing that I’d like more empirical evidence for my perspectives as I think I’ve forgotten how I developed them in the first place
I hope you get good responses outside of using AI. Personally I became so frustrated with how useless search engines have become that I caved and started using deepseek to search for sources. I use it like I would use a search engine, but can be more descriptive about what sort of source I’m looking for.
I also more frequently use the search option of different websites and news outlets from which I know they will cover certain topics well.