How to Clean Up Google Search Results for Academic Research
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
For academic sources, start with Google Scholar, which searches journals, theses and repositories. On regular Google, adding site:.edu or site:.gov limits results to universities or government sources, and filetype:pdf finds papers and reports. Patrick Bushe's Search Cleaner tidies the page, hiding the AI Overview, ads and shopping boxes, but it doesn't block commercial sites; uBlacklist can do that if a few keep getting in the way.
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