Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviewsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1416arrow-down17cross-posted to: techtakes@awful.systems
arrow-up1409arrow-down1external-link“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviewsarstechnica.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square55fedilinkcross-posted to: techtakes@awful.systems
minus-squarestom@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 hours ago &udm=14 Add the querystring to your searches and it disables all AI results. Do this automatically with a browser extensions such as: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/udm-14/
minus-squareArtVandelay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 hours agoBecause Google has set it up to work. A query parameter is just that it’s a parameter for your query. In this case Google has set that parameter to disable AI search results.
Add the querystring to your searches and it disables all AI results. Do this automatically with a browser extensions such as:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/udm-14/
Why does this work?
Because Google has set it up to work. A query parameter is just that it’s a parameter for your query. In this case Google has set that parameter to disable AI search results.