Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again.

• CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Advanced” Site:google.com filetype:pdf -“consider” etc etc.

  Using targeted operators to refine your search.

  Plenty of resources on it by searching “Google operators”

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  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well yes, but also just any use of www.google.com/advanced_search

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    • CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh wow, they made it easier and people still didn’t use it

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      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s been there for decades. We were taught to use it in middle school. There used to be a fairly prominent link to the advanced search page from the main Google homepage.

        For a while, regular google searches were good enough to find everything you needed, so the skill became less common/important. My guess is that public knowledge of it has just atrophied over time.

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• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.google.com/advanced_search

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