How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
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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.

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add “udm=14” to the search URL.

While Google made its AI-focused changes known on its biggest stage—during its Google I/O event—the Web filter was curiously announced on Twitter by Search Liaison Danny Sullivan.

As Sullivan wrote:

  • We’ve added this after hearing from some that there are times when they’d prefer to just see links to web pages in their search results, such as if they’re looking for longer-form text documents, using a device with limited internet access, or those who just prefer text-based results shown separately from search features. If you’re in that group, enjoy!*

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/

https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-to-use-google-search-without-ai-the-udm14-work-around/

  • @ThrowawaySobriquetEnglish
    67•7 months ago

    We’ve added this after hearing from some that there are times when they’d prefer to just see links to web pages in their search results

    It’s almost like they know their product is shit

    • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
      27•7 months ago

      They know, and they know it’s deadly long term, but the money from pushing ads to users like they’re making foie gras is just too good. That’s what MBAs in charge gets you.

      • @ThrowawaySobriquetEnglish
        10•7 months ago

        Yeah, I’m convinced they know. We know it, they know it, and I’m pretty sure at this point they know that we know it. So, like, what, we’re all just gonna hold hands into the apocalypse? Sorry, I’m not trying to come off as being shitty at you. Like a lot of people I’m just very frustrated with the way things are in a wide selection of sections of society and I just can’t help but think of Kitty Genovese in times like this

        • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
          7•7 months ago

          we’re all just gonna hold hands into the apocalypse

          More likely departments or the entire company, if valuation drops too low, is sold to a private equity firm. Profits from the sale get showered over the shareholders. The private equity firm is going to drastically restructure Google and if that doesn’t work give it a few more squeezes to get the profit out and sell the tech for parts. That’s the standard play book.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•7 months ago

            That requires the valuation to drop. A ton of people just go with what they know and are only fuelling it, creatures of habit and convenience and whatnot.

            • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
              3•7 months ago

              That’s true up to a certain level. Then a moment comes where the pain of using it becomes bigger than the convenience and there is an exodus. Some call that the trust thermocline . Or as some say how they went bankrupt as first gradually, then suddenly.

    • @[email protected]English
      17•7 months ago

      There’s at least one public story from an ex-googler who worked on search having a big QoL feature update killed at the absolute last moment before it went live by someone in marketing/ads because it decreased click through rate for the “sponsored” results at the top of the search page.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•7 months ago

      There’s at least one public story from an ex-googler who worked on search having a big QoL feature update killed at the absolute last moment before it went live by someone in marketing/ads because it decreased click through rate for the “sponsored” results at the top of the search page.