Quickly adjust your google search queries to improve search results including Reddit or other sources

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1.0.0

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December 28, 2022

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250KiB

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Search Tweaker Extension

Why Search Tweaker.

* Are struggling when searching against floods of low quality content? Sites that make a summary landing page and don't actually add much value?
* Do you end up with phishing websites that are trying to scam you when you search? Like clicking a link to the actual page that has nothing to do with the preview and is some kind of scam?

Search Tweaker is a tool that helps users avoid low-quality content and phishing websites when searching online. It does this by modifying search queries behind the scenes to reduce the prevalence of spam and irrelevant results in search results. It is private and secure, and can be accessed from any tab with a single click. The tool is designed to be simple and customizable, and it allows users to continue using the search engine of their choice, such as Google, while still being able to filter out spam and irrelevant content. There are several other options available for avoiding low-quality content and phishing websites, such as using alternative search engines or adding specific search criteria to queries, but these options can be difficult or time-consuming for non-technical users. Search Tweaker aims to provide a simple and effective solution for these issues.

Here are experiences without Search Tweaker:

1) \"U can google ur questions about the world and get the CIA FBI answer or u can add \"reddit\" to the end of it and learn the truth\":
2) \"Michael Dubakov\": \"Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam\"
3) \"What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results. How is there not an automated fix for this\"
4) \"I've tried brave, duduckgo, kagi, start page, qwant, you, searX. Relevance of results is average. I want more organic results, to text made for content (blogs), not text made for clickbait (publishing sites). Add \"reddit\" to search words to get more organic results is also wired phenomenon.\"
5) \"Google who originally had a fantastic discussion search feature, but it was killed to optimize the Ads business.\"

Sources:
(1) https://twitter.com/literallysofie/status/1371899624491995137?s=
(2) https://mdubakov.medium.com/google-please-do-something-with-your-ads-and-seo-spam-99a6b039354c
(3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33743003
(4) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33668539
(5) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762681

Overall, there is more and more spam because SEO spammers and scammers are brute forcing what works and what does not work. Some techniques include putting out copy and paste content or things stolen from other sites just to lure you in.

Here is where Tweaker comes in, as it helps you to avoid the low quality content and phishing websites by tweaking behind the scenes you search queries. It’s completely private and safe - doesn’t see or change any information on any sites you browse and can be accessed from any tab with just one click.

You can control your search experience to see more relevant results for your specific queries by automatically amending your search criteria behind the scenes to reduce SEO Spam and other less than relevant results. You can even search simultaneously with multiple tweaks.

Need more details on what others are experiencing without Search Tweaker? You can read more about people frustrations below:

Solution Options:

1) We can of course use alternative search engines (like yahoo, duckduckgo), but they either lack relevant results or fall back on the best search engines with the biggest index - Google and Bing (as the runner up).

2) Use ublockOrigin devFilter (with a very nice https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results configuration helper) - but we still find it is a bit too complicated for most non technical users.

3) use Google as it has the biggest index but prefix search query with `site:reddit.com` or `site:news.ycombinator.com` or simply adding ‘reddit’ to the search query.

OR
use Search Tweaker. As it allows you to use google as the search engine which is the option 3 above, so has the biggest index and just enables the Option 3 for you automatically.

We built it because it is simple, customizable (if needed) method that works without you having to adjust your searches each time to get better search results

It’s completely private and safe - doesn’t see or change any information on any sites you browse and can be accessed from any tab with just one click.

Source Manifest.json

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