Go to Wikipedia and look at the references. The Wikipedia editor credo is "show don't tell". Meaning don't explain it. Summarize something that does, and link it.
Also, donate to Wikipedia.
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You can use the - (minus) sign,
which excludes pages that contain the word which has the - in front of them.
For example, currently I'm replaying GTA V single player, but when I search for content related to it, I'm often given articles about the online version.
To solve that I search:
GTA V -online
Which excludes all articles containing the word online.
I use SearXNG though,
but afaik this is implemented by most search engines.
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
Most of the operators in the working list also work in other search engines including YouTube's internal search engine.
Those stopped working well on google search ages ago, all the competitors support them tho.
I'd say you're not using the right filtering, which honestly takes a lot of practice and sheer luck.
Usually if I get garbage results, I try neuroscience -"top 10", which would remove the generic top 10 reasons for X results. If it's still self help garbage, then try more keywords like lecture, presentation, or theory. Some searches I straight up can't figure out though, and the query ends up removing being a mess. In those cases, it's worth trying again later and seeing if you've phrased it won't.
I use Kagi and uprank non-shitty sites. I think there's also uBlacklist or uBO filters that can remote shitty sites.
I paid for Kagi for a while and many of my coworkers use it. It's a solid and growing engine that's getting a a lot right re: creating good UX and generating search results (which should be the goal of a search engine, *sigh).
That said, l use SearxNG daily nowadays because it's decentralized and privacy-focused. You can use any of the public instances or host your own if you like.
Here's an example of the search results for "Neuroscience" on the instance I use.
This is really helpful, SearxNG looks pretty good, might also check out Kagi