How to Get Purer Search Results for Academia
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
For scholarship, general web search is the wrong starting point: Google Scholar, your library's databases and repositories such as arXiv or PubMed return papers rather than commercial pages. On regular Google, site:.edu and filetype:pdf narrow things down. Patrick Bushe's Search Cleaner hides Google's AI Overview, ads and shopping boxes, though it doesn't exclude commercial sites; uBlacklist can block specific ones.
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