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How do you search for blogs/forums/media directly from experts rather then the usual SEO slop google/big tech shows you? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by luce@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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:

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?
Are there any approaches I can take that apply to more then just google?

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[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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> -online

Which excludes all articles containing the word online.

I use SearXNG though,
but afaik this is implemented by most search engines.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nope, Google doesn't care about search operators anymore. Hasn't for a number of years. Have to use a different search engine.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

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!