Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.
It’s easier to just use duckduckgo
I just wish I could search a term of more than 2 words and get relevant results rather than pages that contain at least one of the words in high volumes. That’s the only reason I ever use google, for years now. Encasing the words in quotes doesn’t seem to function at all on DDG, either.
DDG has had cost issues with some of the more complex queries. Exclusions (-) for example are very expensive, as Bing recently raised their prices. I think this is why search has gotten worse with DDG recently.
I’ve found that search engines in general, including Google, really don’t like to listen to the whole thing I typed in.
Google still listens to quotation marks, at least.
Won’t take it for granted. Has worked for a decade or more but who knows how much longer.
It’s worked since basically the launch of Google as a search engine.
Should’ve doubled up on my decade estimate!
A small proxy site was written to do this for you: https://udm14.com/
Can also just add a custom search engine to Firefox with the search URL string:
https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s
No need to go through a completely separate site.
I’m not a programmer. Can I add this to the url string I already have as my default custome search?
Example:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14&q=%s
Or is this the same thing as yours: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
IDK about the order but limit yourself to one query equals percent S there.
To help understand why (since it’s simple enough!):
google dot com/search?q=%sbecomes
google dot com/search?q=YourSearchTermcuz it replaces the %s with what you type.
So
google dot com/search?q=%s&udm=14looks right to me
I think I may try both and see what happens just because I’d like to know. Thanks for the response though.
You should, easy enough.
Even with %s in a URL twice it’ll probably work, just show the query twice in the navigation bar.
And this way you’ll be sure the intermediate site isn’t also scraping your data.
That site is open source, in GitHub. Not much to it.
Show google who’s boss by still using the product.
It works. In Vivaldi just add the parameter at the end of the search URL in the search settings configuration.
“For good.”
Until Google finds a workaround.
They don’t need to “find” a workaround. They put this there. This isn’t some sorta “hack”, it’s literally a feature Google built into the page. This feature will exist for exactly as long as Google wants it to.
This won’t last long. It’s too public now. Google will find a way to kill it and force their AI on you as much as possible.
Google’s too smart for that. They know there’s a big backlash against AI in the tech savvy crowd and that it’s bleeding users to competitors. So they offer this escape valve that they know the techies will easily find and use, but which 99% of the population will never even look for. This way they can still push AI on almost everyone while at the same time retain as many disgruntled techies as they can.
You’re giving them a lot more credit than is probably warranted. They’ve killed off so many popular things and workarounds that really cost them nothing to leave available for the tech savvy they’ve very much shut down to force people to use the systems they want to push.
googie hasn’t been tech savvy friendly for a while now
I can think of a couple examples, like leaving the boot loader unlocked on their pixel phones. You might be right though.
Ok. But what benefit would they gain by forcing people into AI search? That’s not rhetorical, I’m legitimately asking. Are you saying this is just about controlling the experience? Because they already did, and all this is doing is weakening that control. It’s certainly not easier or more cost-effective. They’ll get LLM training data from either interface. The other things they shut down cost them development or maintenance or even just server space, but even if they managed 100% adoption of AI search they’ll still need to maintain their old platform as a data source for the AI and for the below-page results. So what financial incentive do they have to push people to a more expensive, less-liked endpoint for that data?
I’ve given up trying to understand what benefit companies like googie get from most of the shitty consumer-hostile decisions they make. You’ll have to ask them when they inevitably shut that down what they get from doing that.
Learning what their profit motives are is helpful in the future, so that you can learn how to extract value from the corporation. This is the game in a capitalist hellscape: figure out how to get more out of them than they get out of you.
Google kills its golden goose search engine and is thought here up be too smart to disable a workaround… I’m doubtful.
But it’s not a workaround. This Web-Filter is a function that Google offers by choice. It’s in the menu on the search page.
lol it’s just what happens when you click More -> Web which is something they just introduced like a week or two ago. I’m all for hating on tech giants, but comments like this go beyond cynicism/jadedness and go right to conspiracyville.
Why should they? The Web-Filter is a function that Google implemented themselves. It’s not a secret trick or something.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
If you’re tired of Google’s AI Overview extracting all value from the web while also telling people to eat glue or run with scissors, you can turn it off—sort of.
It’s actually pretty nice, showing only the traditional 10 blue links, giving you a clean (well, other than the ads), uncluttered results page that looks like it’s from 2011.
Most of these only mean something to Google’s internal tracking system, but that “&udm=14” line is the one that will put you in a web search.
If you don’t want it to be the default, shortcut/alias will let you selectively launch this search from the address bar by starting your query with the shortcut text.
Omitting “gw” will still launch Google’s AI idiot box, which will probably tell you that rocks are delicious.
So, while this Band-Aid solution is interesting, things are getting so bad that the real recommendation is probably to switch to something other than Google at this point.
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probably tell you that rocks are delicious
“kill ai search for good”
Yeah, ok. It’s a feature and Google will kill it eventually.
I never get these things where people are like “ah ha, we outsmarted the company by using an undocumented* feature they provide!” But like, they control the feature and they know it exists, you’re not getting away with something.
* or sometimes even documented
I tricked target into lowering prices by using this coupon they had on their website! Mwhahaha.
Google will just use this as a way to flag their tech savvy and anti-ai users. It’s just another data point.
You can still have a laugh with the new page, like that extreme confidence highlighting the wrong answers.
if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.
Firefox let’s you add arbitrary search URLs to its list of search engines.
