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Paulo Akira's avatar

To all those who don't know yet: you can get rid of slop AI stuff in Google searches by using the parameter "udm=14"... the downside is that it's not trivial to make this option default, one needs to take very different steps according to the combination OS+browser. There are plenty of instructions available online.

You can also use the website udm14 dot com, which redirects your search to Google search with udm=14 included in the search URL. The same website provides a link to a long explanation about this feature.

One can also use other search engines, like Duck Duck Go or Start Page etc.

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Vincent Bevins's avatar

Damn yes this seems like a lot of work. I still continue to mostly just use shitty-google, but perhaps I need to start trying Duck Duck Go. I think it's quite bad to *rely* on ChatGPT in any way at all, especially at this point, so all of my excursions over there are just to figure out what the deal

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Samuel's avatar

Yeah duck duck has a lot of the same quality issues. Without letting google off the hook it does seem like the problem of good search got harder over the past 5 years (AND google both intentionally and through neglect broke search)

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arya's avatar

Duck duck go has an AI overview now too

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