Dr Vanessa: This really works; delete the gobbledegook after your search term (in my e.g. this is q=recipe+for+bread) and add &udm=14 and all the top tips, AI summaries, 'also searched for' and video (1st image) vanishes. You just get actual search results (2nd image).

This really works; delete the gobbledegook after your search term (in my e.g. this is q=recipe+for+bread) and add &udm=14 and all the top tips, AI summaries, 'also searched for' and video (1st image) vanishes. You just get actual search results (2nd image).

This is so important and valuable. A way to get "Google search without the crap." Notably AI crap, which destroys G-search utility. Intro'd here: tedium.co/2024/05/17/g... In practice: After a Google search, click on "Web." You'll get the de-crapped results.

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Searchtedium.co Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

One of the things i enjoy about bsky is that reply guys/helpy posters are still quite rare. 100s of likes and reposts and the “i don’t use google so this doesn’t matter to me / do you know other search engines exist little lady??” responses are *minimal* compared to twitter.

I toggle between DuckDuckGo and Google (as the later choice) because I really don’t want to feed the monster that Google has mow become. The variance in results is quite revealing too. Understand why some folk need to rely on Google though.

DDG is my default but tbh I don't find it anywhere near as useful as old school google.

Agree there are times I have to go back. I suspect until DDG gets the increase of usage needed it won’t have enough data to worn with. Catch 22 situation. The EU should have challenged Google as a monopoly a long time ago (and not some poor imitation like Qwant).

I have heard that you can search Google through DDG by prefacing the search terms with !google and it seems to work but my technical knowledge of such things is zero so I don't know

I get pretty mixed results for this, as a data point.

That absolutely works. You can shorten it to g! and it can go before or after you search terms.

2nd page of DDG results are usually completely useless

All this time and development, and we need to almost go back to the command line to make it work.

We’ll teach the kids how computers work if it kills us

I _do_ love nice little hacks like these. Not just because they're useful, but also on the general principle of "hack all the things and bend them to your will" =8)

Omg! Its normal!!!

In my experience using ad blockers does the same thing. AdGuard seems to filter out all the shit for me on iOS.

This is being rolled out for all, so pretty soon you'll just see the web (non-shite content) option in the search anyway.

Brilliant thank you 📌

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I switched to Kagi and am so happy to be migrating away from google hell

kagi is doubling down on AI slurry now too unfortunately

doesn't come up in my default results though I know they have a secondary project that I just ignore because it's of no use to me

Duckduckgo is the best. You can jave a quick research bar on Firefox. I realy recommend.

Yes, i know and i already do this. The post is about and for people who choose or want to use google.

Oh yes, I always forgot about them.🤭

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