Declutter your Google search results page

Avoid Drudgery:
How to easily remove advertisements and leave only high value information in your search results with 1 quick skill!

The first search a person does on an unfamiliar topic is usually the most painful. The results are often filled with unwanted and irrelevant results.

Using the minus sign, Not Search, is the fastest way to cut away the clutter from your search results.


Not Search:
1. Enter your best guess keywords on a topic.
2. Notice the keywords that are pulling in irrelevant results.
3. In the search bar, enter the keywords that are triggering the irrelevant results with a minus sign in front of them.
4. desired term 1 desired term 2 -undesired term 1 -undesired term 2

How it Works:
Google offers results based on the keywords that you entered into the search bar. Often, one term is highly correlated with other terms. If the other, unwanted, terms are more popular, Google will assume that you are looking for information on those terms as well.

If you are just starting out on a search, this might not be such a problem.

But if you already know what you are looking for… then this element of Google is downright aggravating.

Google realizes that users might want to override this feature, and therefore offers the minus sign, which allows sites with that specific keyword to stop showing.