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
With the Microsoft AI.
DDG only uses the web indexing from bing. There’s no AI on DDG, and the search result is created by themselves, without MS tracking or fingerprinting.
So far this actually seems like a good, privacy respecting implementation of a chatbot. Good for those who don’t want to go the full offline selfhosted route IMO
I actually don’t think its a “bad” idea to have an AI helper like a copilot or a Gemini on my computer. But I don’t want it integrated into every system. I don’t want it to have any more access than I choose to give it each time I use it.
I can see myself making use of a sandboxed AI, installed kind of like a flatpak or an appimage. I can call it up, ask it to do something for me and if it needs access to something temporarily in order to do it, it can ask nicely and I say sure on an as hoc basis and then shut it down again.
It’s a shame that they’ll certainly prioritize nerfing this over fixing actual problems
“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.
Show google who’s boss by still using the product.
DuckDuckGo is the future
Duckduckgo suffers a lot of the same problems as google and other search engines. It’s just not getting progressively worse as fast as google. It’s still been getting worse and worse as time has gone on. I really dislike people who just point to another search engine like it’s the end all be all and don’t or won’t acknowledge that each one has problems and a lot of the problems overlap significantly. None of that fixes the problem or makes any of these companies backtrack on their terrible implementation of anti-user/anti-consumer policies.
wait, is the AI thing automatically enabled in the US?
If this is anything like the flag to bring back the old Chrome downloads bar (I miss you), then enjoy it while you can.
“For good.”
Until Google finds a workaround.
I can’t help but be curious, does udm=13 or udm=15 do anything?
Truthfully, the way I cut out most of the noise everywhere is to search using duckduckgo lite on Librewolf/Mull browsers. That with ublock origin (and block cookie banners), noscript, and redirection extensions to nojs alternatives like libreddit, scribe, invidious, along with putting various bypass paywall scripts into ublock’s filter list. It all just adds up to an overall better experience with fast, to the point results.
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.
It works. In Vivaldi just add the parameter at the end of the search URL in the search settings configuration.
