The real question is why use Google for 99% of searches? There are very few searches where Google is “necessary,”(debatable still).
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!!!
The only other way that I personally know on how to get around the google AI is when you search something at the end of the search type (-AI) that seems to work well.
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?
Here you go:
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.
Google’s core ranking algorithm and traditional results list rely heavily on AI and machine learning models, completely separate from generative summaries or AI overviews.
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?
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?”
Well that won’t help me find scat porn at all then!
Zibbity zoop! Gimme dat poop!
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
Ok, haven’t tried that. Bing is better than Google, yandex might be better I don’t know
“naked cheerleaders”
Bing
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q="naked+cheerleaders"&first=1
disappointing
DuckDuckGo
https://duckduckgo.com/?q="naked+cheerleaders"&iar=images&t=h_
disappointing
(nsfw)
https://www.sex.com/en/pics?search="naked+cheerleaders"
less disappointing
not bad
(nsfw (kinda))
https://imagex1.sx.cdn.live/images/pinporn/2020/07/28/23387530.jpg?width=620
Yeah there was a long period of time when all you have to do is search “Imgur” and you get a ton of gonewild posts (and creepy Russian photos of femme children but we don’t talk about the normalisation of softcore CSAM in some areas). Interesting algorithm they have.
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
What you want is an adblocker and a javascript blocker. It’s more work on your part to get certain webpages working, but well worth it for the extra security.
Just like how 2 condoms is less effective?
Exactly
“When was the fucking war of 1812?”
result: pornhub.com 2007, with actress…
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Apparently it doesn’t I cuss all I want it responds.
This userscript works for me.
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.
I realize it’s a shit post. I’m just commenting a fyi for people who might want an answer.
DuckDuckGo now has their own browser that blows FF out of the water.
Edit: Chromium, don’t bother.
If its chromium then don’t bother, let’s not forget how Google tried to take over the Internet through chromium browsers
Damn :( I just looked and it is. Back to FF!
I thought the DDG browser was Firefox with some branding and plugins?
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.
For your private browsing tabs: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
I use it now. On Firefox.
This is how it’s done.
I haven’t googled anything in years.
I’m trying to not use Google or YouTube starting this month, at least for this month. (i.e. September 2026)
(So far so good. :)
So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
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
Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.
Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.
I’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.
Search
Searching.
I use ddg or ddg’d.
Quaking ?
Nah, use it on the DDG browser for extra cool.
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
More like “you can’t”
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.
If you’re on Firefox, you could also set a keyword. I haven’t used one in a while but IIRC you would then just type
!u search terms(replacing the u with whatever you configured).
You can also get to this through the UI, too. It’s the “Web” tab.
Switch search engine
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…
Non-Issue
The search modifier NOT seems to still work (for now), if you can’t use anything else
