1y ago

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

1y ago

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

1y ago

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

1y ago

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

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Or you could...not use Google. Cut the AI, but everything else about it is still shit.
- Unfortunately there is no other free alternative that is as effective.
  
  I don't know how you view google as "effective", but ddg is very good
  
  I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results
  
  google itself isn't even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing
  
  startpage, searxng, duck duck go
  
  Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it's so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can't?
  
  There are a bunch of free search engines available.
One way to edit the search URL is a proxy site like udm14.com, which is probably the biggest site out there popularizing this technique.
When people are making their own entire web sites to make it possible for third parties to adapt around UX issues of your web site (not just a handful, but enough people that there's one of those sites that's identifiable as "the biggest"), you have lost the plot.
Pretty bold to say that you can eliminate ads and AI results, “for good”. It only happens because Google lets it for now.
For now at least
use duckduckgo guys
- Ooh I got bad news for ya bud
  
  What news?
www.duckduckgo.com
Publicizing it is so stupid.
Google can easily change that parameter on their end and not affect their own site. They could randomize it every few minutes and not miss a best.

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