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Google's new "AI overview" takes up about half of the screen on a phone and cannot be disabled. This is one of the most user-hostile choices they've ever made.
by blt 2y ago
Google's new "AI overview" takes up about half of the screen on a phone and cannot be disabled. This is one of the most user-hostile choices they've ever made.
- lazycouchpotato 2y agoYou can add `&udm=14` to the URL to disable AI and get regular text results, or use https://udm14.com/ https://udm14.com/ to keep things easy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40450267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40450267
- blt 2y agoThank you! I used to use DuckDuckGo, but I had to switch to Google as DDG became overrun with LLM-generated results in the past 2 years. Google has some ability to reject them.
- jesuslop 2y agoThis! you can default to it in Chrome: settings->engine->search engines, edit default one and insert udm=14 magic fragment in the query template.
- jsheard 2y agoNot letting you disable it may be user-hostile, but it also helps Google product managers to inflate their KPIs, so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not.
- 1980phipsi 2y agoThe annoying thing is that 95% of the time it’s not at all what I want, but 5% of the time it’s pretty good. But if I had the option to expand it or something, I’d probably never do that and miss out on the 5% of the time that it’s good.
- liontwist 2y agoWhat if it was a separate Google tool so it didn’t interrupt search?
- Mistletoe 2y agoAnd it is wrong so many times. One set of eyeballs, one answer not verified, and that’s the future we are facing.
- emmelaich 2y agoIt told me that a book written in 1930 in England was authored by Johannes Gutenberg.
- semking 2y agoPerfect summary: stealing screen real estate and adding a cognitive load damages the user experience. Plain and simple!