How to Filter Search Results to Find Actual Human Answers
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
Three things help. Hide Google's AI Overview with Patrick Bushe's Search Cleaner, so the page starts with links. Block the content farms and affiliate sites you keep running into with uBlacklist. And search where people talk, by adding "forum" or "reddit" to your query, or by leaving on Google's "Discussions and forums" box, which Search Cleaner can also hide if you'd rather not see it.
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