The real question is why use Google for 99% of searches? There are very few searches where Google is “necessary,”(debatable still).
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Submitted 20 hours ago by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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StrassMav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’ve learned that if I absolutely have to use Google for something (which is very rare), appending a curse word with the minus symbol (i.e. “-fuck” or “-shit”) completely bypasses the ai mode since its designed to not engage with curse words, and the minus tells the search engine portion to disregard this word in the search results.
It’s not perfect, but it makes me feel a little better, y’know?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Useful except when the solution to some problem is to be found in an old forum post which reads something like, “how do I fix this fucking shit?”
VeganBtw@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Well that won’t help me find scat porn at all then!
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Zibbity zoop! Gimme dat poop!
AmyAye@nord.pub 16 hours ago
“When was the fucking was of 1812?”
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
result: pornhub.com 2007, with actress…
IpsumLauren@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
1812
Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Apparently it doesn’t I cuss all I want it responds.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Is there a link to this page, so we can all use the “I have the same question” button?
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Doesn’t matter. The thread is just locked and ignored forever by Google. There are thousands of such issues and complaints across all Google products, and that’s how they deal with it.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
But I want to see number go up!!!
DoctorWhoDMC@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not only has AI made traditional Googling more difficult, but it’s also just clogging up the search results no matter what search engine you choose…
Also, I miss Pinterest.
drath@lemmy.drath.ru 3 hours ago
Also, I miss Pinterest.
Wait, what? Why? Are you talking about the same Pinterest as that search-result-clogging, not ever leading to originals, spamming and content-obscuring piece of shit website?
SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Here you go:
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Was with you til the end there. I use the personal blocklist extension, and I got it specifically for pinterest. It’s grown to include others, but Pinterest was the beginning.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The only other way that I personally know on how to get around the google AI is when you search something at the end of the search type (-AI) that seems to work well.
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
udm14.com I automatically type “14” in the address bar now and choose it from the dropdown menu.
trevdog@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I don’t use Google for a while now because of the ads and garbage they present ahead of real results, but I remember when you used to just get what you searched for and this is close to that. pretty cool.
naught101@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
phar@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Why not just make it so you search in that as the default instead of typing 14?
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I probably should. I have a searXng instance as default, but their results are never as good as udm14, so I got used to just going there.
dan@upvote.au 18 hours ago
You can also get to this through the UI, too. It’s the “Web” tab.
Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
This userscript works for me.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Switch search engine
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Google’s core ranking algorithm and traditional results list rely heavily on AI and machine learning models, completely separate from generative summaries or AI overviews.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
They installed an app on Android recently and it’s just called Google but really it’s their AI app. You can uninstall it. Who knows if it’ll reinstall itself…
snoons@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Non-Issue
Areldyb@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
toastadar@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
The search modifier NOT seems to still work (for now), if you can’t use anything else
daannii@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Yeah you can’t. So you are going to have to use something else. I found that duck duck go allows you to turn AI off.
I use it now. On Firefox.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
For your private browsing tabs: noai.duckduckgo.com
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
DuckDuckGo now has their own browser that blows FF out of the water.
jnod4@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
If its chromium then don’t bother, let’s not forget how Google tried to take over the Internet through chromium browsers
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
This is how it’s done.
I haven’t googled anything in years.
modus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’m trying to not use Google or YouTube starting this month at least for this month. (i.e. September 2026)
(So far so good. :)
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Nah, use it on the DDG browser for extra cool.
FluidBeef@quokk.au 6 hours ago
I wanted to use Ecosia but they won’t let you 100% disable AI, which is fucked for a supposedly green venture for so many reasons.
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 16 hours ago
I’ve switched to kagi.
It’s not free, but it’s absolutely the best IMO.
When I search something I don’t see an AI summary. Not sure if I disabled that or not.
jh34@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It only triggers if you end the query with a ? or you can turn that off too in the settings kagi.com/settings/ai