Strategic Googling

Strategic googling is the practice of getting better results from search through deliberate technique. Saved posts on it:

David Perell: “Becoming world-class at Googling things is one of the most valuable skills you can have, but I don’t know anybody who actively tries to get better at it.” (Becoming world-class at Googling things… (tweet))
Blake Robbins: appending terms like “reddit,” “wiki” or “substack” to a query “dramatically increases the quality of search results.” (For Most Queries, Google Search… (tweet))
Steph Smith: a site-and-title search finds public spreadsheets, plus the tricks of quotes for exact match, hyphens to remove terms, and site: for specific sites. (Neat Little Google Hack 🔎… (tweet))
Bobby Goodlatte, quoting an article: “Google search results are clearly dying,” and “most of the Web has become too inauthentic to trust.” (Why Are People Searching Reddit… (tweet))

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