I hate the Artificial Intelligence generated nonsense that is plastered on the top of most Google search results these days. I'd say they're present about 2/3 of the time now (some searches are so specific they seem to skip the AI part). A while back there was an article about avoiding it by doing some programing that I didn't want to fool with, but today I found a much simpler answer. When you do your search and click enter, then go to the end of the URL generated by Google and paste in "&udm=14" (no quotes). By the time you've scrolled sideways and pasted you could already have scrolled past the AI bit, so it's a toss up. For a purist who just doesn't want to see that crap, this is your way to avoid it. There's also a website at https://udm14.com/ that is basically the same thing (looks open source). Click to that website then search. I did a search there, repeating one in regular Google, and I see the "udm=14&q" at the front of the string. I just entered that udm=14&q sequence into the first search at the beginning after the search? part and it again eliminated the AI stuff. This information is offered by PCMag, which also gives this tidbit: Google has a new search filter called Web, which essentially returns you to traditional search results. If AI snippets are annoying, get rid of them by clicking the Web filter underneath the search bar. If it isn't visible, click the More button and select it from the menu that appears.
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