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

submitted 7 months ago by gedaliyah to c/technology

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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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[–] surewhynotlem 75 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"kill ai search for good"

Yeah, ok. It's a feature and Google will kill it eventually.

[–] indepndnt 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I never get these things where people are like "ah ha, we outsmarted the company by using an undocumented* feature they provide!" But like, they control the feature and they know it exists, you're not getting away with something.

* or sometimes even documented

[–] surewhynotlem 29 points 7 months ago

I tricked target into lowering prices by using this coupon they had on their website! Mwhahaha.

Google will just use this as a way to flag their tech savvy and anti-ai users. It's just another data point.