🔎 Google has a secret reference desk. Here’s one trick: “‘AROUND(#)’ tells Google how many words apart your two search terms can be. Try: climate AROUND(3) policy. The intent is that only pages where those terms appear in genuine proximity show up, rather than a page that mentions ‘climate’ in the introduction and ‘policy’ ten paragraphs later.” Good for when you want to form your own understanding of something rather than letting Claude mold your thoughts. As a former librarian I loved this so much.

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