Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
arstechnica.com
The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

  • SalixEnglish
    82·
    7 months ago

    There’s no AI on DDG

    Uh… The settings for AI Chat and DuckAssist are both on by default when you use DuckDuckGo. You can see them in Settings -> AI Features

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      7 months ago

      But even activated, results don’t default to an AI chat, that’s a different beta page you have to go through intentionally. I’ve never noticed the Assist because I’m not in an English speaking region and it is not available at all for me. But the point stays, they don’t use Microsoft’s AI. They use GPT-3 and Claude.