Here is a tech tip if you have to use Google for whatever reason.
Add a custom search engine in Firefox and enter this URL:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s&udm=web
This takes you directly to the “web” search tab and skips all the shitty AI summaries and wigdets.Here is another tip: use DuckDuckGo and get useful results and stop feeding the Google Dragon altogether
I’ve had a problem lately where DDG just returns AI generated articles on topics instead of any real resources. It’s not their fault, per se, since it’s just a wrapper for Bing, but it’s pretty lousy.
If I know what to expect, then it’s fine, but if I’m genuinely looking for something new, it’s increasingly frustrating
I’m using Kagi so I can report those sites as AI and have them filtered out for the rest of the community.
o7
I’m doing my part!
We are dozens
You can use the no A.I. version of Duck Duck Go instead.
Thanks. I’ll try that out for a while.
nah just use startpage.com or duckduckgo
if you have to use Google for whatever reason
For what reason would one “have to” use Google?
They specifically said if you have to use Google. I have set my default search engine to ddg on every device and prefer to never touch Google but I run into searches not uncommonly which I know should be pretty easy to find, but ddg just falls over on. Google almost always comes through on those. I hate Google and think their search engine keeps getting worse, but it still has a practical use.
What are the odds this will still work next week after Google allegedly plans to completely kill the search function and just serve up AI hallucinations whenever you try to look anything up?
Udm14.com is a direct link to this
I appreciate all the suggestions here, because I’ve been using Google and getting really annoyed by the AI overview. At first glance it seems useful, but it’s frequently just plain wrong or very misleading.
I think I’m going to just drop Google altogether, even though I’ve been using it pretty much as long as it existed. I remember first finding out about it when my dad worked at Kodak way back in the day.
Or, if you want, you can use a real search engine and therefore vote with your data against this change
You can vote with anything! Your vote, your voice, your wallet, your data, a gun, so many possibilities. THIS is what democracy is about!
A board with a nail in it!
Where this real search engine?
Apex enshitification
Lmfao
See, old “Don’t be evil” Google would’ve put a hidden thing here to return something like “Error 6900: Internet Not Found” with a cozy little image of a person stepping outside their house into the sunshine with lush green ground beneath their feet and a helpful puppy or kitten guiding their way. They’d even have gone so far as to require that you clear out your cookies/cache and restart your browser to regain the ability to go to any websites, including theirs.
&udm=14still works. For now.?
It’s just a flag you can add to your search urls that returns a regular web search. There are firefox extensions that do it for you just search for udm14
Any idea what it stands for?
Try this: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
To be fair, it doesn’t explain what udm stands for but does talk more about what it does
I wasn’t sure - it does really work when you try it. 10 results, and… NO ADS even. This is a great hack to get Google back
Ah, finally. My skills from being an RP server moderator finally coming to fruition.
I use -noai at end of the search string.
This might be better if you get actual results and not 10 pages of ads and manipulated results.
Your method is much easier, however.
I don’t use Google
Did you mean Tulsa Massacre “-noai”?
And then it won’t let you say no. Can’t let you workaround our bot, after all. Look at that value added for our investors!
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I use Presearch and generally the results are good enough for my use. Just block the ads and ignore the crypto scam. Seirdy also has a pretty exhaustive list of search engines to choose from.
U try startpage.com ?
Yeah, I use it as a fallback sometimes. The one thing I like about Presearch is that it has a customizable sidebar that let’s you duplicate your search on another engine with one click if the results are shite. I also use Allsearch to that end but with Presearch it’s synced across computers through my account.
I’ve been using Startpage and loving the results mostly. There’s a big section at the top of most searches that bugs me though. It’s like an alternative search query written several different ways, but I have to scroll past it every single search.
You could always tell it to do that using atomic operations if you prefer.
Humans do LARP just by using A.I.
Click “Web”. Might be hidden behind “More”.
