Best Way to Clean Up Search Queries for Developers
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
For programming searches, how you search matters most: paste the exact error message in quotes, add the library and version, and use site: to go straight to the source, for example site:github.com or the project's documentation site. To keep particular blog-scraper sites out, uBlacklist can block them. Search Cleaner helps with the rest of the page, hiding Google's AI Overview, video carousels and "People also ask" so the links are easier to scan.
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