LPT: If you add "-noai" to your Google search, you won't get any AI overview

LPT: Don’t use Google.

That's more of an announcement, a pro tip would offer an alternative
- Kagi (paid), ddg (free, uses bing), searx (self hosted, uses many engines such as google amd bing)
- Startpage, the most private search engine and without AI
Use 4get! I self host my own but you can find endless public instances online, like 4get.ca

How long until that modifier doesn’t work? The “parameter” and -exclude are absolutely worthless, Google will show you exactly what they want you to see, not what you told it you want (or don’t want) to see.

I've been using noai.duckduckgo.com and it's pretty okay. Fuck Google

Great advice, thanks.
You can turn off ai in settings
- Yes, but this url works if you're on a different device, incognito window, or what have you.

Fuck Google just as much as AI.

But the fact that this works on Ecosia too is useful. Thanks.

Kagi allows you to toggle AI result summaries in your settings, alongside a million other things, like down ranking sites that tend to come with slop and removing the vast majority of AI images from image search results (unless you want that of course, because Kagi is designed around user preference, not advertisers)

I love the idea of Kagi, but those prices are objectively insane. $100/year is downright exploitative when you consider the actual cost to them of performing a search.
- Ahh perfect, I smell a business opportunity for you! Since search is cheap, make your own search engine and only charge $90/year!
- Take Bing API for example. They say it's about $10/1k search.
  As a person who searches 3k+/month + Few hundread Mtoks woth their LLM access, I'm practically stealing from them.
  It is not cheap, especially for a service that is readily available for free, but I just don't see myself going back to Google or Bing or even DDG. Search is miles ahead of others imo.
- If you use less than 100 searches per month, you can use the starter plan. That's $54 a year.

Whats lpt

Life pro tip
- Ty

LPT: self-host searxng with the traffic going over a VPN using gluetun

For those who who do not have the infrastructure, Kagi has been pretty useful to me. Not that I don't have the infra, but Kagi has been very good, and it is more hassle-free. Can be paid via BTC.

When image searching, Duck Duck Go also has a no AI option on the drop down menus above the search results.

I just use Firefox, install the udm14 plug-in, and never think about it again...

In my experience you can also just put "fuck" at the beginning of your search and not get any AI overview

All fun and games until you're trying to remember the name of "the kid who played Short Round in Temple of Doom" and next thing you know Chris Hansen is knocking on your door.

I just added rules to ublock that hides the AI overview everywhere, not just Google (because I don't use Google anyway)

I hope this becomes standard search syntax for all engines.