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Comment by tejohnso | Hacker News Reader

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.

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    what is an iris site:*.edu

At least for me...

First listing (eye): https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921215826/http:/...

Second listing (flower): http://www.ladybug.uconn.edu/FactSheets/iris.php

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-e...

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...

Good catch -- the Google result is actually on an .edu domain but it redirects to the link I pasted above.

yep, Google makes it hard to copy the original link too which is annoying

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.

ha! nice, thanks for that

Still works ok for me 'what is an iris site:.edu'
First result 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.

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