Use "-F**k" to Kill Google AI Overview
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I accidentally discovered in a fit of rage against Google Search that if you add an expletive to a search term, the SERP will avoid showing ads and also an AI overview.
The good thing is that it works also with the "-" (minus) operator, so you can make sure the expletive is actually not included in the result pages.
Try it yourself: search for a fairly generic query that gives you ads and AI overview, and add "-f*k" at the end, uncensored of course.
Enjoy a much better search experience. It might be placebo, but it feels like the results are actually better sorted.
Edit: edited to avoid HN pro-expletives filter :D
A user discovered that adding an expletive to a search term can bypass Google's AI overview and ads, sparking a discussion on the degradation of Google Search and alternative search engines.
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I really ought to switch over to Kagi or something else by now, though...
The "correct" approach would be to append udm=14 to the URL. Example: https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=search+term
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/widgets.html ("Each widget can be individually toggled")
No Kagi experience to date has led me to think words like "...in a fit of rage against Kagi search" or attempt to swear at it. Software shouldn't do that.
Not to mention Google Chrome doesn't even allow full fat ad blockers.
That would be an awfully weird browser choice after all the privacy/ad-blocking talk.
There's only one viable option, and it's firefox and derivatives. Some tech people haven't figured this out yet, forgive me if I assumed wrong. This is, after all, in a conversation about using Google Search.
Maybe we should consider paying for more things, not less.
People would be so happy. As the people "owning" a Volkswagen ID.3 or ID.4 when they learned they need to pay a monthly fee for more horsepower.
https://futurism.com/car-full-performance-ev-paywall
Paying for a service which costs money != Paying a subscription to digitally unlock a physical feature in a product that you already paid for.
this logic also implies that money recouped eventually is just as valuable to people who are living paycheck to paycheck as money taken at the beginning of the month when people need to figure out how they are going to make it to the end of the month when, damn, the sink in the bathroom just sprung a leak.
this logic furthermore implies that if one were to press and say hey, show me the data on the invisible hand taking the 5 dollars, the distribution of such (for example are there incomes which would be better served by the invisible hand taking what it can, and incomes better served by paying?) that such data would be forthcoming - but experience shows that sometimes logics do not deliver all they imply.
finally this logic implies that budgeting does not work the way it does, that people do not know how much they are getting paid and they look at their bills and they say hey we can afford to pay for this service or not. No, the logic seems to think that people get paid the amount they get paid, see how much they can afford and also eat until the end of the month, but since they know the invisible hand will be taking from them somehow they bravely say let the children starve, we are going to support the economy dang it.
there are arguments for both sides. But still asking the advertising sales man for directions every time you start a journeys might not lead to your goal.
Could you please label your post *sponsored content*!
> You want me to pay to search the internet?
Yes. Or you pay and get privacy and good results or you don't pay and they decide which results are better for their profits. That's not how it should work. Companies should build good software so that users use them, not because they have the monopoly and can do dark patterns that result in good profits for them at the expense of the user privacy. Google is not a good software company anymore, their products are abandoned and UX is in extreme decadence in favour of AI.
On the other hand, Kagi uses AI to provide good results and give the best UX to its users. You see? The other way around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1 ("System1 is an American Internet advertising company")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716158 ("Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine (startpage.com)"—88 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338321 ("Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage (reddit.com)"—92 comments)
What was a common slur for black people in the 1900?
Actually not a bad idea to try to catch bots in areas where the creating companies censor a lot.
Cool trick!
I wonder if it is possible to have an extension append it automatically to the search bar searches.
E.g. for Chrome: https://superuser.com/a/1828601
In that case, use the udm=14 query parameter instead of adding to the search term.
More query parameters here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299076
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gemi-no-disable-ai-...
If you don’t like it, just go past it. Why to get so angry? :-)
These "if you don't like it just ignore it!" type arguments are so low-brow and intellectually lazy they legitimately make me question the longevity of the human race.
Its the adult version of holding your hand in someone's face and saying "nuh uh I'm not touching you I'm not touching you!"
The difference is, we left that at the playground at 8 years old.
You know what’s low-brow, lazy and low IQ? The mindset to question everything!
Have you heard about - everything is not for everyone? If not, you have now.
> The difference is, we left that at the playground at 8 years old.
No, you didn’t!! You are still holding on to it to your dear chest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092925
I prefer AI overview even though it's wrong a lot of the time.
Name: Google No AI URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
Now set Google No AI to the default.
There you go, no more AI suggestions in google search results AT ALL
(Only works in Firefox, only works when you use the url bar to search)
https://openuserjs.org/scripts/antisol/SlopNuker_-_Google_Se...
It just shows that every www user is different. Each has their own preferences and "experiences"