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adding "udm=14" to the search URL to de-google google

tedium.co How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search

The results are fascinating. It’s essentially Google, minus the crap. No parsing of the information in the results. No surfacing metadata like address or link info. No knowledge panels, but also, no ads. It looks like the Google we learned to love in the early 2000s, buried under the "More" menu like lots of other old things Google once did more to emphasize, like Google Books.

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  • The company has essentially bet that you’ll be better off with a pre-parsed guess produced by its AI engine.

    The company has essentially bet that you’ll they'll be better off with a pre-parsed guess produced by its AI engine.