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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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[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Go to Wikipedia and look at the references. The Wikipedia editor credo is "show don't tell". Meaning don't explain it. Summarize something that does, and link it.

Also, donate to Wikipedia.