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How to stop Google's "people also search for"
While there is no official statement on the matter, from what I've been able to gather by trial and error, this frustrating feature seems to exist to try and push users into searches which yield more ...
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Keyboard shortcut to access the first link in a Google search page?
You can open the first link populated by Google search by pressing:
tab enter enter
After pressing the tab key, a dialog box appears saying "Skip to main content"
Additionally, after pressing tab ...
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No results on Google Search in normal mode, but results in incognito?
This is a really silly situation.
The answer really only deserves a single line: I had safe search turned on.
Somehow I took a screenshot of that, and didn't notice.
(In the 0.0001% chance somebody ...
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Google search for "-1" returning no results
The - is used to exclude something from a search. This is usually negated if you quote everything, so technically "-1" should work.
That said, Google tends to ignore negative numbers, so the ...
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Report dishonest websites to Google Search
Yes, it's OK to report those sites.
UPDATE 2018-0813
From Report spam, paid links, or malware - Google Search Console Help
If you find information in Google's search results that you believe ...
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How to stop Google's "people also search for"
As mentioned above, using uBlock Origin just add a filter for https://www.google.*/xjs/* that will stop for showing this nonsense for sure as the js files from this request are executing this popup
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Google for the exact phrase (and no, quotation marks don't help)
EDIT
Even better combining "both worlds"
""accuracy" "map"" - "map accuracy"
Your best bet to minimize to most relevant results is to use:
"&...
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Google search for "-1" returning no results
For such things I usually go to Symbol Hound, where you can search for things including, well, symbols, such as & @var x++ etc.
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How to stop Google's "people also search for"
Someone over in the Google Product Forums found this lovely bit of CSS if you have a CSS injection plugin:
.s + div, .exp-outline {
display: none;
}
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What does "tbm" mean in Google Search
tbm: to be matched
tbm=isch: to be matched = image search
tbm=isch&q=chicken: search "chicken" from Google Image Search
you can do the same with tbs
tbs: to be searched
tbs=imgo: to be ...
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Google for the exact phrase (and no, quotation marks don't help)
You can try the word or phrase you want, a space, then one or more things that you want to exclude, each of these prefixed with a minus sign, using quotes where necessary e.g.
jaguar -car
"...
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How can I exclude search results written in Russian?
UPD (11/2023): An extension for Chrome and Firefox became available - "Лагідна Українізація", that solves the problem easily.
P.S. I'm not affiliated with the develover.
UPD (01/2023): ...
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Navigate Google Search purely with keyboard - WITHOUT Google Instant
I created a very simple open source extension to fix this and make keyboard shortcuts configurable.
You can install it from the Chrome Webstore:
Google Search Navigator.
Hope you find it useful, ...
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How to stop Google's "people also search for"
Own rules for AdblockPlus
google.com,google.co.uk##.AUiS2
google.com,google.co.uk##.exp-outline
Go to AdblockPlus settings -> Advanced -> MY FILTER LIST and add the entries there.
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Does case:yes make Google Search case-sensitive?
The link you are referring to "Enabling case-sensitive searches | Code Search | Google Developers" is about searching the code within your projects and not about Google Search.
As stated within ...
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Keyboard shortcut to access the first link in a Google search page?
Hello from the year 2021. Google does not provide shortcuts (yet/anymore) to navigate through the search results.
However, there is a handy browser extension to solve the problem: Web Search Navigator
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Is there a way to remove sites permanently from (my personal) Google search results?
If you are using Chrome, you can create a custom search engine
this appends -site:quora.com to your search string and blocks quora from the search result
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s+-site:quora.com&...
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Is there a way to remove sites permanently from (my personal) Google search results?
If you can use a userscript, I found this to be an excellent replacement for functionality that used to be provided by Personal Blocklist (now discontinued):
https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-...
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How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search?
Just announced by Google, searching for special characters is greatly improved.
The catch? You need to search for at least two or three characters.
Now for queries containing sequences of 2-3 special ...
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URL for "I'm Feeling Lucky" within specific site
I solved this by switching to an equivalent service by another search engine.
While the formula given in the question often works, Google will sometimes chicken out and go to a regular search results ...
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What are the different parameters used in Google search?
When a user "Googles" something, there are multiple parameters being passed on to the Google search service.
Since the example you put in the description is the most basic one, the URL looks ...
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Is there a way to remove sites permanently from (my personal) Google search results?
Use the uBlacklist Chrome extension by iorate
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URL for "I'm Feeling Lucky" within specific site
Use links like https://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=%s site:developer.mozilla.org
btnI=1 makes the difference from a normal request.
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Google search bug?
This isn't a bug - when encoding URLs, the character set becomes more limited, meaning that there needs to be a way to represent the full character set that is now unavailable.
A plus (+) is used to ...
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Is there a new way to remove sites from Google search results?
Now that Google's extension "Personal Block List" is broken you'll need a different extension.
The Chrome extension uBlacklist works to block sites from Google Search results.
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Does Google read text on my screen to improve near-future search results?
Google does an impressive collection of data via searches, analytics and the other stuff, because "data is the new petrol".
I think the feature you describe is based on their prediction engine for ...
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When did "plus" stop working in Google search?
It was first noticed in October, 2011.
They changed that behavior shortly before Google+ launched. The idea is that the plus would indicate G+ content. This is borne out by the search operators help ...
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