This may be obvious, but I recently started routinely adding "-youtube" to google searches. This eliminates most pages with links to garbage YouTube-monetized videos that try to attract people looking for basic instructions on how to do simple things. Greatly improves the quality of search results.
@mattblaze use Kagi and you can just keep YouTube down ranked 😃 https://www.Kagi.com
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