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Learn To Search Community

I would argue that learning to search efficiently using a variety of web tools is the most important information skill of the 21st century.

These days I spend some time at the Learn AI Together discord server. A staple of such communities are technical QA (question answering). A significant percentage of such questions are answered through online searches (e.g., Google). I find the current, conversational approach to such QA problems unsatisfying: if the people asking had known how to phrase their knowledge needs clearly, they would have solved themselves using a search engine (I have similar concerns with "Google programming"). Sharing links with them does solve their knowledge need but doesn't help them learn how to search more effectively. Instead, if I search something to answer their questions, I include the keyword search I used to find the link.

The idea here is to make a forum where the communication between askers and helpers is just keyword searches. In some cases, not even links are shared, just keywords.