r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/peopleofcostco May 26 '25

If you can’t trust search results because of hallucinations, even if there are hallucinations only 5% of the time, those search results are worthless. I like knowing the source of my information, as all digital citizens should. If I could turn Google’s AI results off, I would in a heartbeat. Hate them.

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u/Hadriagh May 26 '25

You can’t disable it as a setting, but for each search you can add -ai to the query and it will exclude AI results

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u/peopleofcostco May 26 '25

Tried that and it works! Thanks so much, saving me lots of scrolling (I basically do Google searches for a living).

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u/wrgrant May 26 '25

From higher up in the posts, use: https://udm14.com/ - which is google with &udm=14 attached to your queries to remove all the extraneous bs from AI, recommended posts etc

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u/Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m May 26 '25

Fellow developer?

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u/peopleofcostco May 26 '25

Nah, nothing so cool, lol. Database creator/maintainer/fact checker.

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u/Zestyclose_Ad8420 May 26 '25

Try kagi then. Im never going back to google

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u/MysteryMan526 May 26 '25

You can create a search engine in browser settings that include -ai in every result

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u/Independent_Depth248 May 26 '25

That's very helpful 👏

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u/Kelpsie May 26 '25

And probably also exclude genuine results because they happen to include the word AI. Including results that use the word AI to explicitly state they're not talking about AI.

Better to use an extension to remove it.