How to use Google effectively to improve your research skills for debate

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Here is a video that will help you improve you googling skills. The speaker sounds like an effeminate beta male, but he in fact is a sleeper alpha. https://youtu.be/nsaVTv_kEvg?si=vA9-kN7_pd7pod4P

Some of you already know how to get more from google search engine results, but if you think there is more to learn about how to google than watch the video.
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being alpha isn't about being smart.
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how did you miss this one?
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It seems to be mostly the same results as google. The difference is they don't track you as much

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Also I messed up on the quotes. It is probably more fitting for longer strings of text than individual words, but it works either way

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for that particular search sure, try to word it better. You said Qanon is real, not Qanon explained.
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try a theory a little less dumb than Qanon and you'll see the difference.
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I would like to get into creating your own search engine with searx for even better results but it's beyond the scope of the video/
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'mafia game lynching' gets the result. Many games switched to elimination instead because of the very reason you realised there.

your quotation marks should only cover one thing not 2 and that thing in the quotes will be in the search results, using 2 doesn't help the word and is always ignored.
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Using 2 should be fine. For example "john smith" AND "had anal sex" . However yes I agree it shouldn't be around single words like I used there. I had different results googling that with and without quotation marks. Neither results are easily explainable if I don't clear my history

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I tried some techniques that were useful to me before but may be deprecated or I am doing them wrong. For example BEFORE: 2015 and also BEFORE:2015 both still gave me results for after 2015

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If you debate whatever google finds popular, you will always have sources on your side.

I am not saying its impossible to debate non-popular opinions, but it takes more effort to find sources.