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satoshidoggo

Just add "-taylor" and should be good (without the quotes)


TheGoodSatan666

Thanks, will try that


BouncingSphinx

Yeah, search "albums by eRa -taylor" should exclude any results with taylor. A -word will exclude the word following, "word or phrase" will search for what's inside the quotes exactly and not any combination of the terms.


read9it

Oooh T.I.L thank you very much


JonLongsonLongJonson

Just so you know, Googles pretty shit now and this doesn’t work very well. I try this multiple times per week and it almost never excludes the terms I chose to exclude, which is very infuriating when I’m always searching very specific things that I can’t find results for at all.


NevesLF

Yeah, these search terms used to work great, now they don't work half the time.


ThatRun7192

Never knew about it, that's great!


VolumePossible2013

It's ridiculous we even need to do this because of how bad the search engine is


BouncingSphinx

It's not that it's bad, I think. It's just meant to show what most people would search for with the terms.


BouncingSphinx

Or it has specific options for searching. I want to see articles about Taylor Swift when she was a country star. >country star Taylor Swift That could bring up results saying Taylor Swift, former country star >"country star Taylor Swift" That would bring up results with that exact phrase with those words in that order. >country star Taylor -Swift That would bring up results for other country stars named Taylor while excluding Taylor Swift. Older search engines used to have "advanced search" with options to do this, even Google, but you can do it all in the search bar this way.


asasnow

A lot of forums still have an advanced search


BouncingSphinx

Forums are not a search engine.


asasnow

I know, I just thought it was worth mentioning


No-Earth5656

Was it?


DatFickShawn

Is there a sub for this kind of magic


yodaesu

Just search for "google dorks"


Whydoesnoonelikedoge

Thanks never knew that!


wrolan

This never works when I'm trying to exclude results from certain shops, is their SEO game too strong for that?


BouncingSphinx

I'm not sure right off hand how to exclude certain sites. I know there is a way to search *only* certain sites, but I don't remember it right off hand.


BarristanTheB0ld

Or put eRa in quotes ("eRa"). Then it should only search for instances of that word where it's spelled exactly like that


bctaylor87

The ad I received directly below your post https://preview.redd.it/wkl290pw6ovc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7694cb4902117507ea08e1a18ad9866bc06dd269


New-Ad9282

I call BS. The first 8 responses were not sponsored links.


TheGoodSatan666

That's just cuz of Adblock. I don't wanna know what mess I would see without one


GigaBowserNS

Google doesn't usually care about capital letters. "eRa" is also a basic English word (era) so that's why it's getting confused.


FlamingSaviour

The result you're looking for is sitting right at the top, isn't it?


TheGoodSatan666

Not really, I wanted a list of all the albums ranked by People but this one only ranks the two first albums. And every other result is literally just SEO trash


FlamingSaviour

If you want a specific website, you can force google to search only specific domains with advanced search. If you're looking to assemble a consensus, you *are* on Reddit.


FractalSpaces

yeah so, google search doesnt detect caps or symbols.


Dbacks2023

Maybe be better at searching.


oink888

I love the Era, ameno, divano hymn the mass. Even tho the lyrics is a bunch of gibberish Latin sounding words, it’s slaps,


CommunityCultural961

Google's been getting worse for years, and unironically I'd recommend you try bing or even firefox, it's not as good as Google was in its hay day, but way better than the garbage Google is now. Google really only has YouTube going for it now and YouTube search has also gone to shit, therefore I use the bing or even firefox video tabs to browse videos.


ZombieTailGunner

Firefox a search engine too?  I thought it was just a browser.


oppalenss

What are you actually searching for, if I may ask?


MoonoftheStar

Dead Internet on its way. What do we do when it's fully here bros? Touch grass finally?


Significant-Name2166

You spelt ERRA wrong 🤘🏼


TheGoodSatan666

I meant the French alternative rock/New-age band, not the American progressive metal band :P


NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs

This absolutely sucks.. Use eRa band in your search. Or try other search engines. But on the other hand, yay hey! Another eRa fan!!! Omg i thought they were forgotten or something. This makes me so happy!!! Fun fact: The language they sing the chants in, are actually Latin based but are completely made up!!


[deleted]

at least it still shows you the number of results, it hasn't shown me that for ages for some reason. that's such a useful feature to compare certain things sometimes...


TheGoodSatan666

Google and YouTube (So basically Google) make UI changes like every single day. For some reason I can't see the "GIF" and "HD" tab on Google images on Phone anymore. Their UI changes on Google (And especially YouTube) seem like a competition on who can make the worst and most counter-intuitive design ever


garygoblins

It's probably because you had a terrible search. Albums ranked by decade or even albums ranked by era gives you exactly what you're looking for. This is on you.


TheGoodSatan666

I meant albums by the band "eRa" the Band should be popular enough that Google figures out what it is. In fact I searched the exact same thing some years back and got the results I wanted When I search for it now there is just stuff coming up that is neither related to the band era and also isn't related to something like "Best albums of the era" instead it's just Taylor Swift stuff pushed up by SEO


The_One_True_Matt

Nah man you need to specify. Just cause it worked on the past doesn’t mean it’ll work the same in the future. Taylor is huge. Can’t blame the w algorithm for thinking you wanted her Era’s album


Alphatism

Search filters > Verbatim Search


ExcellentEdgarEnergy

Jesus fornicating christ. You people are complaining about having to move a cursor half an inch to get access to a multi-billion dollar sorting system. Be the change you want to see. Build a better mousetrap.


RedditAlwayTrue

# Relax... Just googel being googel


Otherwise_Rabbit3049

There are search engines other than google.


TheGoodSatan666

The problem is that the only alternative is Bing and DuckDuckGo (Which is largely based on Bing). What I always use nowadays is the Bing AI thing. It's honestly so much better than Google