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The best solution is DuckDuckGo. You can use DDG as your primary search engine and when it (or Bing, which is its backend) fails to find what you want, you can add “g!” to your search to look it up in Google.

What DDG needs to do is modify the G! switch to include “&udm=14”.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If they can get the minus feature working it would be perfect. Like “-blah” should exclude “blah” but it doesn’t do anything.

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unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I know that “g!” works, but the correct way is “!g”.

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- bownage@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I also use !gm for Google maps and !w for Wikipedia quite a lot
  
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  - n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    FYI !m is also Google Maps.
    
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- Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  TIL. I will do it the correct way from now on.
  
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someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What does "&udm=14” do?

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- n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No Gemini (Google’s AI) results.
  
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- Tramort@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It goes directly to the “web” tab of search results, which is way more likely to be what you wanted in the first place.
  
  It’s like the old school Google search.
  
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n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I love DDG, but if you want non-AI results, just use a different search, like !s (startpage)

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cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What DDG needs to do is modify the G! switch to include “&udm=14”.

You can do this in Firefox by modifying Google (in your list of search engines) like this: google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

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