Hi lemmy. One time I was on YouTube and I wanted to learn more about my latest interest, neuroscience, so I entered into the search bar “Neuroscience” and every single result was from self help gurus.
Oftentimes, I will attempt to find information for something im curious about. More often then not, my search will be slowed by thousands of shitty SEO optimized/self-help guru made/absolutely utterly useless “Top 10 Things to so for X” content. This happens on pretty much every large platform I have ever searched on ever.
have gotten better at googling and searching for the results I want(searching “neuroscience lecture” instead of “neuroscience”) But I can only improve my googling skills so much, so that’s why I wanted to ask a few questions:
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How do I search the internet/google for blogs/forums/media from experts easily? Is there a chrome extension to remove SEO overoptimized results? Do I need to use a different search engine?
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Are there any approaches I can take that apply to more then just google?
You can use the
-(minus) sign,which excludes pages that contain the word which has the
-in front of them.For example, currently I’m replaying GTA V single player, but when I search for content related to it, I’m often given articles about the online version.
To solve that I search:
GTA V <insert-topic-of-interest> -onlineWhich excludes all articles containing the word
online.I use SearXNG though,
but afaik this is implemented by most search engines.
Nope, Google doesn’t care about search operators anymore. Hasn’t for a number of years. Have to use a different search engine.
Oh wow did not know that.
Well, if them spying on you and selling your data was not enough to make you switch to an alternative, then maybe/hopefully lack of search operators will be!