Yeah you can't. So you are going to have to use something else. I found that duck duck go allows you to turn AI off.
I use it now. On Firefox.
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I use it now. On Firefox.
This is how it’s done.
I haven’t googled anything in years.
So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
Just use "search"; we don't want to make a company name the new synonym for search otherwise we are stuck with that company when it gets evil
Search
Searching.
I'm actively still using "google" to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.
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I've switched to kagi.
It's not free, but it's absolutely the best IMO.
When I search something I don't see an AI summary. Not sure if I disabled that or not.
It only triggers if you end the query with a ? or you can turn that off too in the settings https://kagi.com/settings/ai
I wanted to use Ecosia but they won’t let you 100% disable AI, which is fucked for a supposedly green venture for so many reasons.
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I've learned that if I absolutely have to use Google for something (which is very rare), appending a curse word with the minus symbol (i.e. "-fuck" or "-shit") completely bypasses the ai mode since its designed to not engage with curse words, and the minus tells the search engine portion to disregard this word in the search results.
It's not perfect, but it makes me feel a little better, y'know?
Well that won't help me find scat porn at all then!
Bing is better for porn anyways
Bing is good for something?
Mostly only porn, their video search/player for porn sites is far superior to google's
Nah, yandex is the best. Especially if you want to bypass or get paywalled content. It's a Russian search engine
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A fellow man of culture.
Wanna see the whole scene? Bing both actresses names and turn on adblock, maybe double wrap that adblock.
double wrap that adblock
Do you mean using 2 adblockers? I suggest to not do it because they will be in conflict and actually block less stuff, if you want to block even more stuff i suggest to use a DNS-level tracker/adblocker
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Useful except when the solution to some problem is to be found in the responses of an old forum post which reads something like, "how do I fix this fucking shit?"
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https://udm14.com/ I automatically type "14" in the address bar now and choose it from the dropdown menu.
I don't use Google for a while now because of the ads and garbage they present ahead of real results, but I remember when you used to just get what you searched for and this is close to that. pretty cool.
Why not just make it so you search in that as the default instead of typing 14?
I probably should. I have a searXng instance as default, but their results are never as good as udm14, so I got used to just going there.
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You can also get to this through the UI, too. It's the "Web" tab.
More like "you can't"
Not only has AI made traditional Googling more difficult, but it's also just clogging up the search results no matter what search engine you choose...
Also, I miss Pinterest.
Also, I miss Pinterest.
Wait, what? Why? Are you talking about the same Pinterest as that search-result-clogging, not ever leading to originals, spamming and content-obscuring piece of shit website?
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Was with you til the end there. I use the personal blocklist extension, and I got it specifically for pinterest. It's grown to include others, but Pinterest was the beginning.
Switch search engine
The real question is why use Google for 99% of searches? There are very few searches where Google is "necessary,"(debatable still).
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They installed an app on Android recently and it's just called Google but really it's their AI app. You can uninstall it. Who knows if it'll reinstall itself...
Is there a link to this page, so we can all use the "I have the same question" button?
Doesn't matter. The thread is just locked and ignored forever by Google. There are thousands of such issues and complaints across all Google products, and that's how they deal with it.
But I want to see number go up!!!
Non-Issue
just put &udm=14 at the end of the url pr make your default search engine :
And then change the url to duckduckgo.com.
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