Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

BrikoX · 5 months ago

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

@degen@midwest.social · 5 months ago

Or you could…not use Google. Cut the AI, but everything else about it is still shit.

@nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz · 5 months ago

Unfortunately there is no other free alternative that is as effective.

@hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 months ago

I don’t know how you view google as “effective”, but ddg is very good

@nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz · 5 months ago

I end up using !g 95% of the time on ddg

@Hawke@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

DDG is shit.

Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.

@TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 5 months ago

I’m really interested in why you think this. What’s your qualifications for these?

@Hawke@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Effective search results.

Two recent examples:

searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.

@accideath@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.

@Grass@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

google itself isn’t even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing

@RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results

@TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 5 months ago

Exactly. I don’t think I’ve used Google in probably a year and a half.

@JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it’s so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can’t?

@TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 5 months ago

There are a bunch of free search engines available.