James Fallows

@jfallows.bsky.social

This is so important and valuable.

A way to get "Google search without the crap." Notably AI crap, which destroys G-search utility.

Intro'd here:
tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...

In practice: After a Google search, click on "Web." You'll get the de-crapped results.

May 18, 2024 at 20:27 UTC

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Vertandor @vertandor.bsky.social
[ View ] May 20, 2024 at 07:04 UTC

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N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

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Iris @violetly.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 11:35 UTC

We should also try to stop using Google

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Jeff Regensburger @jregensb.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

I love this idea, but I'm not seeing the "web" link they've described. :(

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J O'B. @jobrien.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 11:36 UTC

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evilrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 12:37 UTC

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[ View ] May 20, 2024 at 01:22 UTC

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DodgerFanLA @dodgerfanla.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 14:25 UTC

Could you do this with safari on mobile? I already have ublock blocking the element that shows the AI but I can’t block it on mobile :(

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David Bowman @dlbowman76.com
[ View ] May 18, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

It is not infeasible that Google implemented this feature so that the people who work at Google...can actually use Google. (edited to fix typo)

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Mike Wilson @mkwilson27.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

DuckDuckGo

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Dylan @dangermuppet.bsky.social
[ View ] May 20, 2024 at 07:22 UTC

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Hens Breet @monospace.com
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

Eh. You’re still giving them clicks. Just dump Google and use something else.

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Nuvan Rathnayaka @nuvanrath.bsky.social
[ View ] May 20, 2024 at 10:34 UTC

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[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

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[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 13:59 UTC

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[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 10:32 UTC

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[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 14:12 UTC

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Wally Wookie (FullMetalWookie) 🏳️‍🌈 @wookietron9000.bsky.social
[ View ] May 20, 2024 at 05:29 UTC

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Nihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social
[ View ] May 20, 2024 at 01:47 UTC

@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
I just figured out another thing. Someone recently pointed out how using "before:2023" gets rid of junk, but it also disables snippets without skipping current webpages if you use a year in the future. This method doesn't need javascript.

www.google.com/search?q=bef...

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Nihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social
[ View ] May 20, 2024 at 01:23 UTC

It's not too stable for me (works sometimes, not others). It seems to work just as often with the udm tag before the search term, so it can be plugged into stuff waiting for a search term to be added to the end of this:

www.google.com/search?udm=1...
... = www.google.com/search?udm=1...

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