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
I don’t know, here it used to work all the time no matter what, but in the last few years not so much - for example when I search ‘thing I need to buy -mercadolibre*’ it will show ‘mercadolibre’ results regardless. For technical, scientific or nerdy queries it still almost always works
*mercadolibre being some sort of an “argentinian amazon alternative” with really aggresive seo and shitty practices and shameless greed too