The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google’s AI Overview.
Or you could…not use Google. Cut the AI, but everything else about it is still shit.
Unfortunately there is no other free alternative that is as effective.
I don’t know how you view google as “effective”, but ddg is very good
I end up using !g 95% of the time on ddg
DDG is shit.
Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.
I’m really interested in why you think this. What’s your qualifications for these?
Effective search results.
Two recent examples:
- searching for the open hours of a local shop, google gives it to me. DDG gives me other places far away and no hours listed in the results.
- searching for a web cartoon involving praying mantises. Google gives me four different cartoons. DDG gives me two cartoon-style drawings of a praying mantis and a ton of photos of praying mantises.
The other way around though, when I was recently searching for the new nvidia linux beta drivers, DuckDuckGo gave me the official nvidia site as the first result. Google didn’t even have it on the first page.
I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results
Exactly. I don’t think I’ve used Google in probably a year and a half.
google itself isn’t even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing
Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it’s so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can’t?
There are a bunch of free search engines available.
One way to edit the search URL is a proxy site like udm14.com, which is probably the biggest site out there popularizing this technique.
When people are making their own entire web sites to make it possible for third parties to adapt around UX issues of your web site (not just a handful, but enough people that there’s one of those sites that’s identifiable as “the biggest”), you have lost the plot.
Pretty bold to say that you can eliminate ads and AI results, “for good”. It only happens because Google lets it for now.
For now at least
use duckduckgo guys
Ooh I got bad news for ya bud
What news?
Publicizing it is so stupid.
Google can easily change that parameter on their end and not affect their own site. They could randomize it every few minutes and not miss a best.
