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allintext: I know that the small net isn't really a place that's friendly to big tech, but this is a post about Google. We all have to use it sometimes. It seems that search efficacy has degraded dramatically over the past 20 years. I find it more and more difficult to locate sites on the internet. Google seems to ignore the focus of my searches in order to provide me with advertising. I frequently try several search engines[1], often just to avoid Google, and still don't find the material for which I've been searching. Personal, non-commercial sites are especially difficult to find. Then, this morning, as a result of a post on the Hacker News[2], I went looking for search operators that still work. I found this page: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/ Buried well down the page is the operator "allintext:" (without the quotation marks). It's a piece of search magic that forces Google to comb the body text of a page (and nothing else, apparently) for all of your terms, as if you put AND between each term and added, "and I mean it this time!" Preface your searches with it and you'll suddenly find that Google works again, returning results that come a lot closer to what you hoped to find. [1] duckduckstart.com provides duckduckgo and startpage functionality. It's worth a look. [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30083783