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Comment by arrosenberg | Hacker News Reader

FYI, you can append &udm=14 to Google searches to remove AI results and a bunch of the other clutter they've added.

I did that, and started getting flagged as a bot. Had to search elsewhere(Kagi) full time, or else suffer endless "find a bike" nonsense.

I think Google hates the loss of no/few ads or lame suggestions.

Google thinks the same of me and I don't even edit the URL. I can have a session working just fine one night and come back the next day, open a new tab to search for something, and get captcha'd to hell. I'm fairly sure they just mess with Firefox on purpose. I won't install Brave, Chrome, or Edge out of principle either. Safari works fine, but I don't like it.

Google will captcha me on the second or third search if I try to use the "site":" advanced keyword to narrow down search

I'm sorry I know how to use your tool?? ? Didn't you put these keywords in to be used?

Google has gotten amazingly hostile toward power users. I don't even try to use it anymore. It almost feels like they actively hate people that learned how to use their tools

Neat trick, any other params folks might want to know about?

I found this page that describes a variety of search parameter: https://susodigital.com/thoughts/the-mystery-of-the-google-u...

then i got the machine to write a front-end that visualises them and builds a search query for you: https://pastebin.com/HNwytYr9

enjoy

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