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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”
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Well yes, but also just any use of www.google.com/advanced_search
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Oh wow, they made it easier and people still didn’t use it
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.