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@NBCNews: Social media has been buzzing with examples of Google’s new, “experimental” AI tool going awry. A Google spokesperson said the company believes users are deliberately attempting to trip up the technology with uncommon questions. https://t.co/Wj9iuKzzHk
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I hope this forces them to give user option to turn it off.
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They did, it's just not terribly well known. You have to add &udm=14 to the end of your search URL. Or just do your searches from here: udm14.com
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami codeudm14.com A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
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On nice, didn't know they made a shortcut for the URL. The problem is you lose some useful features too, like reverse image search (that can also do text OCR).
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Yeah, it's not a perfect solution. And it doesn't address the fact that Google search has been lousy for years thanks to aggressive SEO. But it's better than nothing.
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Yeah it does improve Google noticeably but people saying "this makes it go back to the way Google was in the good old days!" are lying to themselves
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it gets rid of the ui elements but the search results are the same as far as i can tell. ya gotta flip on verbatim search to make it behave.