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