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Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how you view google as "effective", but ddg is very good

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I end up using !g 95% of the time on ddg

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

DDG is shit.

Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm really interested in why you think this. What's your qualifications for these?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Effective search results.

Two recent examples:

searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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.