What are tips and tricks you learned to find exactly or close to what you are looking for on the internet?

Nowadays it's just a lot SEO optimized websites or ads that show up on search results nothing helpful.

Thank You and take care

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Amazing_Library_5045 t1_je8p4xw wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:48 AM

Don't use google? It's cluttered with ads and promoted links.

I'm baffled how fast I find information when I use other searches engine. Personally I like duckduckgo.

ExaBast t1_jebmp6p wrote on March 30, 2023 at 8:51 PM

Uhm, adblocks?

roscoe_e_roscoe t1_je8hmfx wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:25 AM

Go way more than one layer deep; say you're looking up info on satellite transponders, look for the links in the Wikipedia entry, find periodicals and so on. Keep drilling in for more original research and the latest work in the field. Try different searches. Military SATCOM transponders? Commercial? What's on different companies' websites? And so on.

RockOrStone t1_je8hnwe wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:25 AM

Add the name of a relevant website you know will provide quality answers to your search.

E.g for programming related searches, « stack overflow » + your question

Chase_The_Dream t1_je8lubq wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:09 AM

Try adding "osrs" to your search

Peacewalken t1_je9seej wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:33 PM

I love old school rune scape!

keepthetips t1_je8gz2o wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:18 AM

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Late-Jicama5012 t1_je8tk23 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:45 AM

You have to be specific what you are looking for.

Depends what you are searching for, you will get ads, thus you have to scroll down half down the page in some cases.

Half the time, I’m looking for something specific but I can exactly describe it. I put in the words click search, afterwards I click on “images” till I find an image that is close what im looking for. I click on similar images that eventually have a name or description what im looking for.

Searching via google images has helped me a lot over the years.

VLMove t1_je8vfsq wrote on March 30, 2023 at 7:11 AM

iiirc boolean operators

"Extact word"

-exclude word

Ect

Search by particular site

site:webaddress.com

msmessyclean t1_je8vwh3 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 7:17 AM

Google Search Ninja Tips and Tricks.

Google has a small document that has these tips and tricks that you could use while searching like what VLMove mentioned.

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EASellsShittyCopper t1_jea7yzw wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:27 PM

Every time you see anything that even vaugely looks like seo spam, block it (alternatively, via ublock origin). don't feel any mercy. everything you block is designed to extract as much money as they can from you, and if you judged wrongly, you can always go to your settings and unblock it

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Muted_Description112 t1_jed4c7m wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:26 AM

Put whatever words need to stay together in quotation marks

“Water well drilling”

It will show results with the words together rather than randomly