"Just append -ai to your search" is the "you're prompting it wrong" of Google stans. 1) It's a broad-audience consumer technology. It shouldn't suck by default. 2) Appending -ai to your search doesn't keep Google from returning third party AI slop in the search results.
Yes, and it's useless anyway if you do 'highlight a word + right mouse button click' to search. That used to be a very useful tool, but now definitely isn't. It's part of the reason I've stopped using Google, but they're all pushing AI search "assist" now.
For those who don't know. techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/d...
As DDG user I didn’t know that option had been added. I am glad not to be a regular Google user.
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no I agree with you. Haven't used google in years tbh, was just trying to help
Doesn't work reliably anymore.
I can't wait for Gippity-5's killer new "shopping" feature that nobody asked for and nobody wants/needs. Groundbreaking stuff!
I wish one of those wacky decentralized search engine ideas from the 2000's panned out.
I hate it with a passion. It's consistently rubbish esp because it adds heaps of useless nonsense (nobody asked for) muddling even the remotely on the ball info ... Score: 0 out to five ⭐
tepid trash
There's udm14.com
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It shouldn't be necessary but here we are. Use DuckDuckGo for search together with the DDG browser and the settings allow you to eliminate pretty much all of the AI BS from your searches. Still can't believe *Google* fucked up search. You had one job, guys... duckduckgo.com
You can blame Prabhakar Raghavan, the Herald of Enshittification, for Google becoming useless. Prabhakar Raghavan previously destroyed Yahoo! search and then as is typical of this kind of dudebro, was allowed to fail upwards and then infect Google Saint Edward: www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
Shit, half the time '-ai' doesn't even remove the summary garbage, at least in my experience.
It also doesn't keep Google ai out of the search. It just isn't at the top. It is in the drop downs
How about instead we remove the AI "default" and make it so that if you add +ai to your search several burly men show up and break your fingers.
Boolean searches should not act this way!
I'm now using an extension called "Bye Bye Google AI", and it's effective. Mind you, Google's not my default search engine, but sometimes it's the only recourse that works.
THANK YOU
I've. switched to Firefox. It's got an ai but it's easy to turn off. Much happier. 😃
What? What should I do if I want to exclude the word 'ai' from my query? This is so confusing
Oh those filters have stopped working for years now, so you'll never be able to ask for results without a particular word.
love* all the people replying to this systemic issue with more individual actions