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

But without the double quotes, right?

ex: keyword1 keyword2 -youtube

not keyword1 keyword2 "-youtube"

@mattblaze

People that are not familiar with the search options may not realize that by double quoting, it escapes the meaning of minus sign which is to exclude.

@SpaceLifeForm They are welcome to experiment.