The best solution is DuckDuckGo.
You can use DDG as your primary search engine and when it (or Bing, which is its backend) fails to find what you want, you can add “g!” to your search to look it up in Google.
What DDG needs to do is modify the G! switch to include “&udm=14”.
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
on 06 Jan 22:27
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I know that “g!” works, but the correct way is “!g”.
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The best solution is DuckDuckGo. You can use DDG as your primary search engine and when it (or Bing, which is its backend) fails to find what you want, you can add “g!” to your search to look it up in Google.
What DDG needs to do is modify the G! switch to include “&udm=14”.
I know that “g!” works, but the correct way is “!g”.
TIL. I will do it the correct way from now on.
I also use !gm for Google maps and !w for Wikipedia quite a lot
FYI !m is also Google Maps.
You can do this in Firefox by adding Google (in your list of search engines) like this:
google.com/search?udm=14&q=%sWhat does "&udm=14” do?
No Gemini (Google’s AI) results.
It goes directly to the “web” tab of search results, which is way more likely to be what you wanted in the first place.
It’s like the old school Google search.
I love DDG, but if you want non-AI results, just use a different search, like !s (startpage, which uses Google)
If they can get the minus feature working it would be perfect. Like “-blah” should exclude “blah” but it doesn’t do anything.