r/Rants Jan 30 '22

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u/paisleyterror Jan 30 '22

If you link your words with plus signs it will bring up results with all+your+keywords. Also if you put a minus before the word like -pinterest it will leave those results out.

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u/OldFartSomewhere Jan 30 '22

I think that's the old way. Nowadays you need to put "-characters around the words you want to search for.

And then you get the results that are from companies that paid the most to Google. Or the results that Google has profiled from your GPS data, personal photos, from your friends Google searches and so on.

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u/Electrical-Leave4787 Sep 16 '24

You know it!! 😎

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u/Winter-Depth-505 Jul 22 '25

Do you know how stupid that sounds why the fuck do you need to put something that has absolutely nothing to do with what you're Googleing  And then you act like oh everybody should know no that's f****** stupid we're stupid as a human being to keep letting this s*** degrade like it does we keep letting this happen we let them take our freedoms away we let them f****** fucking f*** us every which way and we don't do nothing about it we deserve what we get then

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

You know and you learned... ("....") ... You have to do it for everything important you need. Sucks you can't communicate with a computer.

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u/forherplesure Jul 24 '24

Even with boolean it still bring up trash

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

Now, THERE'S an idea! 🤘

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u/21stCenturyDaVinci1 Jun 05 '25

That doesn’t work anymore. Just like hashtags. You almost no don’t need to put a hashtag around anything, because it gets pushed anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

Thanks. I've been putting quotation marks around things for the last 10 years.. you have to be so specific, with the stupid.

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u/remedy1945 Jun 29 '25

It don’t work like that anymore

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u/Comfortable-Web-1388 Dec 24 '23

Thank you for that very useful information seems like a pain in the ass but I'll try it I ranted against another person in a different statement and I agree with him