Last week, Google unveiled a new little feature in Google Search, called “Web”. Residing alongside the various other options like “All”, “Images”, “Video”, and so on, its goal is to effectively strip Google Search results from everything we generally don’t like, and just present a list of actual links to actual websites. It turns out it’s quite simple to set this as your default search “engine” in your browser, so somebody made a website to make that process a little easier.
On May 15th Google released a new “Web” filter that removes “AI Overview” and other clutter, leaving only traditional web results. Here is how you can set “Google Web” as your default search engine.
↫ TenBlueLinks.org
It’s important to note that this is not some separate search engine, and that no data is flowing any differently than when using regular Google. All this does is append the parameter UDM=14 to the URL, which loads the option “Web”.
This is useful. Thanks!
Or just use Startpage 😉
I started using this last week! It’s so much nicer, I want to cry.
FYI I submitted a request for a new “bang” command in DuckDuckGo, for the rare cases I jump to Google for a search.
https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
True hero. DuckDuckGo is terrible as a search engine, but the bang search makes it worth setting as the default in every browser.
You mean the Bing engine/index is pretty bad, but the Bang search DDG implemented on top of it is great?
Yeah, something like that.
There’s at least one alternative browser that implements bang searches natively. Just cut DDG out completely, set up your searches in the browser preferences. I thought it was Falkon but I can’t find that option at the moment.
I’d say [this](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/assign-shortcuts-search-engines) fits the bill, but I might have misunderstood you 😉
It turned out to be Brave and I’m now ashamed that I know that.
I switched to Qwant (a french search engine) as it has much better results overall than google or bing.