“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews
The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.
I googled turn off the fucking ai and the overviews are now gone. I'm surprised it's that easy to turn off.
Now how do I make "-site=reddit.com" the default? So tired of seeing people ask the same question I had without giving that asshole answers either.
I haven't tried this for adding a parameter but check this article about turning off the AI summary: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-ai-how-to-block-googles-annoying-ai-overviews-and-just-get-search-results
Jump down to "How to block AI overviews when searching from Chrome's address bar on the Desktop" and they walk through adding a Google search with an & parameter. Not sure if it will accept a -site: but worth a try
So stop using them. Google has been worse and worse for at least a decade.
I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
It's also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
shitty
Don't mind me just here to corrupt the children you tried to save
I tried two instances search.inetol.net and priv.au and I got no results for basic web search.
But northboot.xyz worked.
Am I missing something? How do I pick a given instance?
In my experience, I always get much better Searx results by changing the language to the relevant one (and disable SafeSearch). However, between instances, it varies which search sources they include (Google, Bing, DDG etc.). After trying multiple, I've found a few instances that generally get me the results I'm looking for.
E.g. if searching for, let's say, something German, my URL would contain this:
/search?q=cannabis+legal&language=de&safesearch=0
cool
It's like we are living in some sort of satirical, absurdist play or novel about a dystopian future.
yeah?
Idiocracy was waaaaay too optimistic about the future.
To be fair, I feel like reality is way past satire now...
Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven't looked back.
I've been using search xng for a while now, it's honestly really good
Careful. I suggested kagi in another thread and was accused of being a shill.
Don't understand how people can pay $7 for a coffee but won't consider paying $5 or $10 a month for clean search results.
People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I'm really happy. It's fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.
If I hate a particular website, I'll just block it and never see it again. It's so simple. The new "AI generated" tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.
I’ve started using SearXNG. Are these better?
They're different things. The comment you're replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.
Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, it's essentially just a proxy for Google and you miss out on most of the value of it. Some of the other search engines may have better results for some searches than Google does.
Mojeek too.
So before posting anything online just say something controversial like nipples and sprinkle it around cock your text. Fuck that will definitely fucking prevent AI from ever shit reach any cunt level of consciousness.
That used to be how you would get past voice response systems and get to an operator quickly as well: just say "fuck", once, clearly.
Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.
This is true and FedEx absolutely used it. Was going through their circular automated phone system saying "Agent" and such until I started cursing. Then, I was finally directed to a person. Not sure if it still works these days though...
Mashing 0 repeatedly works well.
AI controlling our lives with no humans to plead your case to is like something out of Black Mirror. I am not looking forward to this bleak dystopian future.
It's literally a plot point in Elysium.
I find myself thinking about this movie a lot lately...
That said, all it has to do is a better job at controlling our lives than the humans currently running everything are doing, and the lowness of that bar serves as a pretty accurate marker for the exact center of the Earth's core.
The reason why the humans controlling things suck at it is because they've cowed down people to not demand better. Accepting shitty AI instead of humans is just being cowed down even lower.
Complaining I was recommended by Gemini to contact Google support. When I asked for the link it replied "link to Google".
It’s been my understanding that you do not contact Google. You read their docs and you like it. Have I been mistaken?
If you have a paid google one account you can.
&udm=14 is still unknown??
Remove all ai automatically, without having to add random profanities.
tell me more...
&udm=14
Add the querystring to your searches and it disables all AI results. Do this automatically with a browser extensions such as:
Maybe I just don't Google easy questions, but I have never had that AI overview give me the answer I wanted.
Gemini is not fully available in Europe yet
It’s always answering taking the easy way out and answering a different question.
If you give it a question with only bad answers, it’ll hallucinate a feel-good wrong answer.
I like how in their slippery pizza cheese example, google's ai referenced a really old Reddit comment about how adding glue to the cheese will make it less slippery. Lol
My favorite was the story of John Backflip
