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.
The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.
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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 end up using !g 95% of the time on ddg
DDG is shit.
Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.
I'm really interested in why you think this. What's your qualifications for these?
Effective search results.
Two recent examples:
The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.
I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results
Exactly. I don't think I've used Google in probably a year and a half.
google itself isn't even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing
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.
