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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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[–] 32 points 2 years 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.

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

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

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

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years 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.

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

    heh to find my comment with these screenshots:

    I had to use Google:

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

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Third and fifth result are about the correct one

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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” :)

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