Unless You Like Onion Articles In Your Search Results
It has been about two weeks since Google injected AI into the search results of many of their users, in the form of a blue box with AI powered results you need to scroll past to find the actual results. Thankfully it hasn’t reached the whole world yet, but once you see it you can’t get rid of it. While some may find it handy, many others have noticed the results include conspiracy theories represented as facts, advice on self harm and amusingly, the occasional Onion joke. The results from the Onion about how many rocks you should eat in a day are ridiculous, but spreading falsehoods and advice on suicide are not funny in the least.
If your search results have been infected there is a way to remove the blue box, seeing as how Google doesn’t offer a way to do so. You can add an URL parameter to the end of your search to suppress the AI garbage, simply paste &udm=14 to your search results and you will be presented with the old look you are familiar with. Ars Technica offers a handy way to automatically insert that into your search results if you use Chrome or Firefox, as well as a link to a site which will do it for you if you don’t want to mess with your search settings.
You can always manually remove the &udm=14 if you’d like to see what you are missing in your search results, or to see if it has improved in quality.
