Whether you’re using a search engine or LLM, what are some keywords that help turn up more specific and/or richer content?

I was once taught to add the term “physiology” when looking up medical topics to turn up more content that doctors would consult.

Also the acronym “SEM” is great if you want to see microscopic images of things, even if they aren’t strictly performed by a Scanning Electron Microscope.

  • ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I don’t have any specific words or anything, but I do have some general tips that might be useful.

    You can exclude words from search results by placing a - at the beginning of the word you don’t want. For example if you want real hedgehogs and not Sonic the Hedgehog:

    hedgehog -sonic

    Another tip is you can put quotation marks around a phrase to search for content with that exact set of words. This can be useful when searching for something like a band with a name that just isn’t search friendly.

    “the band”

    There’s a great browser add-on called uBlacklist that can block specific sites from from search results. One particularly useful feature is subscriptions, which allows users to share public lists that update automatically.