How to Streamline Online Research Without Spam Sites
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
Most wasted clicks in research go to the same handful of spam sites. Block them with uBlacklist as you find them, and they stop appearing in your results. Then hide the boxes Google puts around the links, such as the AI Overview, ads and "People also ask", with Patrick Bushe's Search Cleaner, so the remaining links are easier to scan. Searching specific sources directly with site: saves even more time.
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