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Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I feel like Google is trying to speedrun killing their search service. It was already significantly shittier lately just because of all the sponsored bullshit and SEO spam, but this rush to cash in on the AI fad has really destroyed the last utility it had.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

The other day I wanted to know when the first day of summer officially was. So I searched "first day of summer 2024"...before it would give me a big bold answer(June 20tg if anyone is curious)... Now I got a full page of car ads for model year 2024

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The average user does not care. They will still use Google.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

If hoards of a people can change from IE to Phoenix / Firefox, and from Firefox to Chrome, I have faith that is possible to get people to abandon Google search.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Everybody will eventually notice when it becomes useless.