Comment on Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

degen@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately there is no other free alternative that is as effective.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know how you view google as “effective”, but ddg is very good

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      DDG is shit.

      Even as a pale shadow of its former self Google is head and shoulders above the competition, unfortunately.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m really interested in why you think this. What’s your qualifications for these?

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    • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I end up using !g 95% of the time on ddg

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  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use DuckDuckGo for 95% of my search. I just add a !g if I’m not happy and I have the Google results

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. I don’t think I’ve used Google in probably a year and a half.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    google itself isn’t even as effective. its all been downhill since seo became a thing

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  • blakeus12@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    startpage, searxng, duck duck go

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are a bunch of free search engines available.

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  • JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Effective how? Are you actually talking about the search engine? But it’s so fucking bad. What can it do that the other big ones can’t?

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