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Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
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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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A small proxy site was written to do this for you: https://udm14.com/

Can also just add a custom search engine to Firefox with the search URL string:

https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

No need to go through a completely separate site.

And this way you'll be sure the intermediate site isn't also scraping your data.

I'm not a programmer. Can I add this to the url string I already have as my default custome search?

Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14&q=%s

Or is this the same thing as yours: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

IDK about the order but limit yourself to one query equals percent S there.

To help understand why (since it’s simple enough!):

google dot com/search?q=%s

becomes

google dot com/search?q=YourSearchTerm

cuz it replaces the %s with what you type.


So

google dot com/search?q=%s&udm=14

looks right to me

I think I may try both and see what happens just because I'd like to know. Thanks for the response though.

You should, easy enough.

Even with %s in a URL twice it’ll probably work, just show the query twice in the navigation bar.

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