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If I try to look up "pandemic" but don't want "covid" I'd normally do: pandemic -covid or pandemic not covid. Now all I get is covid shit. WTF. edit: Boolean search seems to work with yandex and mojeek but not google and it's clone ddg.

If I try to look up "pandemic" but don't want "covid" I'd normally do: pandemic -covid or pandemic not covid. Now all I get is covid shit. WTF. edit: Boolean search seems to work with yandex and mojeek but not google and it's clone ddg.

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Add "-news" to your searches along with other exclusions or the trusted sources system will ignore them. Won't stop all of it but it should help

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boolean searches don't work anymore.

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They do, just not 100% of the time. They work less on current events and other things that might trigger curated results. Filtering out the word "news" cleans up those curated results a bit.