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

submitted 5 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I just wish I could search a term of more than 2 words and get relevant results rather than pages that contain at least one of the words in high volumes. That's the only reason I ever use google, for years now. Encasing the words in quotes doesn't seem to function at all on DDG, either.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've found that search engines in general, including Google, really don't like to listen to the whole thing I typed in.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Google still listens to quotation marks, at least.

Won’t take it for granted. Has worked for a decade or more but who knows how much longer.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's worked since basically the launch of Google as a search engine.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Should’ve doubled up on my decade estimate!

[–] vanderbilt@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

DDG has had cost issues with some of the more complex queries. Exclusions (-) for example are very expensive, as Bing recently raised their prices. I think this is why search has gotten worse with DDG recently.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

heh to find my comment with these screenshots:

I had to use Google:

[–] beeb@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Here are the same queries with Kagi (I was interested to see the difference)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Nice, how about for an odd emoji someone just used elsewhere (but then Voyager ran out of RAM I think):

[–] beeb@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Here (didn't find the right one, almost)

[–] beeb@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Third and fifth result are about the correct one

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna ask if your OS displays 🧑‍🧒 in color, or if you were searching a different emoji.

Less than two hours later, Google forgot how to find the right emoji!

Regarding my pondering, now I see Emojipedia moved the by-platform Emoji icons to the Designs tab.

In the meantime I learned Wikipedia redirects 🧑‍🧒 to “Family” :)

[–] beeb@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah the colors come from the os, my keyboard shows the monochrome one when I pick it. That was all very interesting!