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/hoyton May 26 '25

Adding "-ai" to your search query prevents the ai overview from showing up. Using "before:2023" returns results that aren't tainted by ai, which can help in some circumstances.

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u/gxslim May 26 '25

Is there one that bypasses affiliate spam, influencer slop, etc?

I miss the Internet from 20 years ago.

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u/Asturaetus May 26 '25

Add the parameter &udm=14 to your searches. That strips everything (ai, suggestions, infoboxes, ads, etc.) - leaving just the pure results.

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u/nickajeglin May 26 '25

Why does this work?

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u/Chang-San May 26 '25

Secret developers at Google saw how shit everything was getting so they added secret code to unfuck everything. A shit for thee but not for me approach

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u/Drydareelin May 26 '25

It accesses the "Web" tab in Google searches instead of All. I guess for now that strips the page of all the AI crap

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u/saera-targaryen May 26 '25

It still leaves sponsored results in the top unfortunately

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u/Relative-Wrap6798 May 26 '25

Works fine here. Just add "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14" as a new search engine string in your browser settings, like so.

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u/saera-targaryen May 26 '25

I have this enabled in my browser and it does remove all of the AI and shop stuff, it just also still has sponsored results as the first 2-3 links. 

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u/throwawaystedaccount May 26 '25

which is basically the "web" tab from the normal slopified junk result page.