Not only has AI made traditional Googling more difficult, but it’s also just clogging up the search results no matter what search engine you choose…
Also, I miss Pinterest.
I’ve learned that if I absolutely have to use Google for something (which is very rare), appending a curse word with the minus symbol (i.e. “-fuck” or “-shit”) completely bypasses the ai mode since its designed to not engage with curse words, and the minus tells the search engine portion to disregard this word in the search results.
It’s not perfect, but it makes me feel a little better, y’know?
Apparently it doesn’t I cuss all I want it responds.
Yeah you can’t. So you are going to have to use something else. I found that duck duck go allows you to turn AI off.
I use it now. On Firefox.
I realize it’s a shit post. I’m just commenting a fyi for people who might want an answer.
For your private browsing tabs: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
I use it now. On Firefox.
This is how it’s done.
I haven’t googled anything in years.
I’m trying to not use Google or YouTube starting this month, at least for this month. (i.e. September 2026)
(So far so good. :)
So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?
Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.
Just use “search”; we don’t want to make a company name the new synonym for search otherwise we are stuck with that company when it gets evil
I’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.
Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.
Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.
Search
Quaking ?
Nah, use it on the DDG browser for extra cool.
Switch search engine
Non-Issue
