No doubt you have accepted the enshitiffication of Google search like a slowly boiled frog. You don't have to! It turns out that there is not just one, but about 47 weird tricks that will make Google search work for you the way you want it to. You should go there, read it, and bookmark it, but just to convince you here's a (very small) sample.
Try: site:nytimes.com climate to search only the Times, or site:gov vaccine to pull results exclusively from government domains. It works as a better version of a website’s own search function (most built-in site search is mediocre at best), as a trust filter when you only want results from a specific domain type, and as a research shortcut when you already know which publication or institution you want to pull from. You can also run it in reverse: electric vehicles -site:tesla.com returns coverage that isn’t from Tesla’s own pages.
After any search, click Tools (just below the search bar), then the “All Results” dropdown, then select “Verbatim.” Google stops paraphrasing you entirely and returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.
The minus sign removes a word from your results entirely. Put it directly before the word with no space: jaguar -car returns the animal, mercury -planet returns the element or the musician depending on your other terms.
There's so much more. I just picked these to convince you. Check it out!
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