How To Search Google Without the AI Garbage, Bots and Spam

Google recently announced that AI has been added to its search engine results.

In what the New York Times has called “a litany of untruths and errors,” the product, called AI Overviews, didn’t work as well for its users as it did for Google’s corporate vision and PR departments.

“A lot of companies with a large established base are arrogant and tell users to accept. They make decisions supporting business goals, not with consumers in mind,” observed Ernie Smith, author of Tedium and a tech visionary who has found a solution for the regular user.

While we’ve all heard of the “put glue on your pizza” mishap, little guidance from Google has been given to the general public on side-stepping this latest Silicon Valley tone-deaf “innovation.”

Until now - thanks to Ernie Smith. He has created a simple way to avoid “AI results, featured snippets and most ads and sponsored posts” on Google searches according to a post on HackerNews.

“Let’s see how to simplify this.” Mr. Smith wanted to benefit a lot of people with this new feature, and “not just bury it behind some technical stuff.”

There’s one of two ways to search without getting AI junk and SPAM.

• Use the URL below:

https://www.google.com/search?...

And then just enter your search terms like before.

• Another way is to go to:

https://udm14.com/

And enter your search terms like you do on Google.

This workaround has been featured on prominent tech news outlets such as boingboing.net, Arstechnica, and Hacker News, so the tech heads have already checked it out and say it works, which was confirmed for this article.

People still want to use Google, and for good reason. What Google offers that is unique for a search engine is the depth of materials it reaches. Some research materials can only be found on Google.

“I do a lot of heavy research that includes history, books, patent filings and old newspapers that was collected by Google in its first ten years. All that stuff is still there for researchers.” Smith said.

A brief search using Smith’s tool links to about 10 articles in my college newspaper written by me. By comparison, the Duckduckgo search engine has only three listed. Bing has two results and something called “perplexity.ai” has no results, but does show an inaccurate blurb that is basically useless. “you.com"is even worse. AOL lists three articles over 5 pages.

“We are at time where a lot of tech is handed down to us from on high: phones, laptops. I think about small and encouraging people to experiment like in the early days of the Internet. And to see what little toys you can create. A throwback that helps other people.”

That’s what inspired Smith to take the new feature of Google and create a way to present it to non-technical people. Previously, the only way to use it was to reconfigure your browser or use a tiny computer called a Raspberry Pi. Recognizing those methods were out of reach for almost everyone, Smith created https://udm14.com/.