How to prevent Finder from indexing and searching specific folder?

One of my folders contains hundred of thousand of small files, its a dataset for study, its not a personal files and I don't care at all to know what's in there. Because it too huge every time I try to find anything in finder I see the majority of the results coming from this folder. Also, I believe that because this dataset is updated from time to time this will slow my machine every time it tries to index it.
My question: Is there a way to make Finder NOT seeing a specific folder or directory?
Many thanks,,

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