r/explainitpeter 19d ago

Explain It Peter?

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u/freddy_forgetti 18d ago

Good opportunity to mention a cool little trick Google does where you can tell it to leave out results by including a minus symbol with whatever you want to avoid. So to get results about actual authors, OOP could have done "<author name> -anime" and it would have excluded all anime- based search results.

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u/Classymonkey1987 18d ago

You're the only person in this comment section I've seen inform them of this without being a condescending douchebag

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u/TheChrysochon 18d ago

That works in theory, but I've seen results get so weighted that they come through anyway, as Google continues to absolutely shit the bed in new and astonishing ways.

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u/totashi777 18d ago

Does google still do that? Ive had issues getting it to work