Edit: i’ll update this list of search engines that are alleged (up to you, the Reader, to verify) not to respect special search operators:

  • owoarchist said Google

Keep your previous search terms but add “NOT” then whatever the word thats coming up that you want to exclude from search results since its not relevant to what you’re looking for

I just intuited and put this to use a moment ago and it works and helped filter down things substantially

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I feel like they’re sort of universal to the point if you have to ask that question then what you’re using now (if you’re asking from $ having experience of it not working) isnt worth it and to try a different search engine.

    I dont want to say what I use, vut I hope I’m making sense. Just try whatever you are cool using but try examples like with “keyword” or -dontIncludeTerm or +includeTerm