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?
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
cool
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.
you’ll just make the AI scottish
Ugrading the A. I. to A. Aye!
God damnit that pun is way too good.
It’ll certainly make for some contentious AI.
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.
Everything satirical and absurdist I’ve read felt very realistic.
But again, that’s something most autists would sign under, I think.
I hope you wrote this light-heartedly, because it made me laugh and helps me understand autism a little better.
It’s funny because it’s true. chuckles softly
To be fair, I feel like reality is way past satire now…
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.
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.
Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.
Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven’t looked back.
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.
DuckDuckGo 🦆
Ddg has an AI assistant thing too, you can turn it off though
And the choice is what matters.
Now that you mention it, DDG’s AI assist button is probably my most used LLM because it’s just there & available without being intrusive.
Some web searches lend themselves well to a quick generated paragraph.
Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn’t include Copilot or a lowercase i :p
Yeah, don’t ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called “Razor.”
Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I’m aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.
They should hire someone to name things there. The only worse name I can think of would be to drop the “App” and just call it “Windows”.
Now imagine naming a social media platform after a letter of the alphabet 🙃
Or don’t, because that guy is busy getting access to the Fed to burn everything down.
Or your company after the whole alphabet.
I don’t remember, was it Microsoft or just the journalists saying
The windows app let’s you run windows apps on windows
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.
Any recommendations on how to get started with that? I’ve been using it but without digging through a frankly intimidating list of configuration options, I’m not feeling like it’s really adding much value yet
No, SearXNG is great
Thanks
Mojeek too.
Honestly I just use ChatGPT for all my questions now
I use ChatGPT to help me figure out my prompts for DeepSeek.
That’s certainly a choice
Zero Google AI in chat gpt, mission accomplished I guess?
He wants to help development of “open” “ai”
Hopefully not for anything that requires an accurate result…
If you ask it to find a source website rather then an explicit answer i don’t see why not.
The internet is full of lies to begin with, i wouldn’t trust the snippets on the google search page either.
Carbon footprint - AI burns a lot more power than old fashioned search results.
I get wanting to cost them more, but I don’t think they’ll see this use case as a cost.
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.
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.
A human can at least spot an obvious error and correct it in the system. An AI would just double down and apologize for any inconvenience in a very comforting voice with words statistically proven to lower a customers frustration level.
and correct it in the system
Have you dealt with any large company’s first level support these days? They’re not empowered to do anything in the system in the vast majority of cases (to be clear, this isn’t a dig at support, it’s at the companies that don’t give their staff the tools to actually do their job).
Yes, most people can spot an obvious error, but actually correcting it in the system is usually much more difficult.
On the other hand, AI can also spot obvious errors. And the more stressed out, overworked, understaffed, and generally bombarded departments become, the more people will miss obvious errors.
It’s literally a plot point in Elysium.
I find myself thinking about this movie a lot lately…
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=14is 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:
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.
Maybe I just don’t Google easy questions, but I have never had that AI overview give me the answer I wanted.
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
