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Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Can also just add a custom search engine to Firefox with the search URL string:

https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

No need to go through a completely separate site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not a programmer. Can I add this to the url string I already have as my default custome search?

Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14&q=%s

Or is this the same thing as yours: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

IDK about the order but limit yourself to one query equals percent S there.

To help understand why (since it’s simple enough!):

google dot com/search?q=%s

becomes

google dot com/search?q=YourSearchTerm

cuz it replaces the %s with what you type.

google dot com/search?q=%s&udm=14

looks right to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think I may try both and see what happens just because I'd like to know. Thanks for the response though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You should, easy enough.

Even with %s in a URL twice it’ll probably work, just show the query twice in the navigation bar.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And this way you'll be sure the intermediate site isn't also scraping your data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That site is open source, in GitHub. Not much to it.