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FYI, you can append &udm=14 to Google searches to remove AI results and a bunch of the other clutter they've added.

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b112|5 months ago

I did that, and started getting flagged as a bot. Had to search elsewhere(Kagi) full time, or else suffer endless "find a bike" nonsense.

I think Google hates the loss of no/few ads or lame suggestions.

pirates|5 months ago

Google thinks the same of me and I don't even edit the URL. I can have a session working just fine one night and come back the next day, open a new tab to search for something, and get captcha'd to hell. I'm fairly sure they just mess with Firefox on purpose. I won't install Brave, Chrome, or Edge out of principle either. Safari works fine, but I don't like it.

paws|5 months ago

Neat trick, any other params folks might want to know about?

willguest|5 months ago

I found this page that describes a variety of search parameter: https://susodigital.com/thoughts/the-mystery-of-the-google-u...

then i got the machine to write a front-end that visualises them and builds a search query for you: https://pastebin.com/HNwytYr9

enjoy