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Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A small proxy site was written to do this for you: https://udm14.com/

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Can also just add a custom search engine to Firefox with the search URL string:

    https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

    No need to go through a completely separate site.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I'm not a programmer. Can I add this to the url string I already have as my default custome search?

    Example:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14&q=%s

    Or is this the same thing as yours: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    IDK about the order but limit yourself to one query equals percent S there.

    To help understand why (since it’s simple enough!):

    google dot com/search?q=%s

    becomes

    google dot com/search?q=YourSearchTerm

    cuz it replaces the %s with what you type.

    So

    google dot com/search?q=%s&udm=14

    looks right to me

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