Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

Enlarge / The now normal “AI” results versus the old school “Web” results.Ron Amadeo / Google

If you’re tired of Google’s AI Overview extracting all value from the web while also telling people to eat glue or run with scissors, you can turn it off—sort of. Google has been telling people its AI box at the top of search results is the future, and you can’t turn it off, but that ignores how Google search works: A lot of options are powered by URL parameters. That means you can turn off AI search with this one simple trick! (Sorry.)

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