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Counter example: "what is an iris" when wondering about anatomy brings up Wikipedia as the first link. Perfect. With the .edu trick the first link is about th

Counter example: "what is an iris" when wondering about anatomy brings up Wikipedia as the first link. Perfect. With the .edu trick the first link is about the flower, and there's nothing about the human eye anywhere on the first page of results.

SeanLuke 4y ago
what is an iris site:*.edu At least for me... First listing (eye): https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215826/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002386.htm https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215826/http:/... Second listing (flower): http://www.ladybug.uconn.edu/FactSheets/iris.php http://www.ladybug.uconn.edu/FactSheets/iris.php
einr 4y ago
Okay, but iris does have two meanings and sometimes you need to be specific in your queries. Your original query would not have been perfect if you were in fact wondering about the flower. "what is an iris anatomy site:*.edu" is enough to bring up this as the first result: https://www.umkelloggeye.org/conditions-treatments/anatomy-eye https://www.umkelloggeye.org/conditions-treatments/anatomy-e...
- fotta 4y ago
  but that's not a .edu site though e: ah it looks like it is a .edu that redirects to a .org https://www.kellogg.umich.edu/patientcare/conditions/anatomy.html https://www.kellogg.umich.edu/patientcare/conditions/anatomy...
  - einr 4y ago
    Good catch -- the Google result is actually on an .edu domain but it redirects to the link I pasted above.
    - fotta 4y ago
      yep, Google makes it hard to copy the original link too which is annoying
      - einr 4y ago
        Sidetrack, but I can recommend the Firefox/Chrome extension "Don't Track Me Google" which cleans up Google result links to be the actual URL, without Google's tracking redirect.
        fotta 4y ago
        ha! nice, thanks for that
davorak 4y ago
Still works ok for me 'what is an iris site:.edu' First result https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215133/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002386.htm https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215133/http:/... Short but description of the iris and the function in the eye. For textual links 2 out of 9 responses for eye irises. and 7 out of 9 for the flower. embedded in the same page is 'Images for what is an iris site:.edu' and 10 out of 10 of those links are for eye irises. Switching over to image search the first 20 are all about eye irises.

SeanLuke 4y ago

what is an iris site:*.edu At least for me... First listing (eye): https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215826/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002386.htm https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215826/http:/... Second listing (flower): http://www.ladybug.uconn.edu/FactSheets/iris.php http://www.ladybug.uconn.edu/FactSheets/iris.php

einr 4y ago

Okay, but iris does have two meanings and sometimes you need to be specific in your queries. Your original query would not have been perfect if you were in fact wondering about the flower. "what is an iris anatomy site:*.edu" is enough to bring up this as the first result: https://www.umkelloggeye.org/conditions-treatments/anatomy-eye https://www.umkelloggeye.org/conditions-treatments/anatomy-e...

fotta 4y ago
but that's not a .edu site though e: ah it looks like it is a .edu that redirects to a .org https://www.kellogg.umich.edu/patientcare/conditions/anatomy.html https://www.kellogg.umich.edu/patientcare/conditions/anatomy...
- einr 4y ago
  Good catch -- the Google result is actually on an .edu domain but it redirects to the link I pasted above.
  - fotta 4y ago
    yep, Google makes it hard to copy the original link too which is annoying
    - einr 4y ago
      Sidetrack, but I can recommend the Firefox/Chrome extension "Don't Track Me Google" which cleans up Google result links to be the actual URL, without Google's tracking redirect.
      - fotta 4y ago
        ha! nice, thanks for that

davorak 4y ago

Still works ok for me 'what is an iris site:.edu' First result https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215133/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002386.htm https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215133/http:/... Short but description of the iris and the function in the eye. For textual links 2 out of 9 responses for eye irises. and 7 out of 9 for the flower. embedded in the same page is 'Images for what is an iris site:.edu' and 10 out of 10 of those links are for eye irises. Switching over to image search the first 20 are all about eye irises.