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The best solution is DuckDuckGo. You can use DDG as your primary search engine and when it (or Bing, which is its backend) fails to find what you want, you can add “g!” to your search to look it up in Google.
What DDG needs to do is modify the G! switch to include “&udm=14”.
I know that "g!" works, but the correct way is "!g".
I also use !gm for Google maps and !w for Wikipedia quite a lot
FYI !m is also Google Maps.
TIL. I will do it the correct way from now on.
If they can get the minus feature working it would be perfect. Like "-blah" should exclude "blah" but it doesn't do anything.
What does "&udm=14” do?
No Gemini (Google's AI) results.
It goes directly to the "web" tab of search results, which is way more likely to be what you wanted in the first place.
It's like the old school Google search.
I love DDG, but if you want non-AI results, just use a different search, like !s (startpage, which uses Google)
You can do this in Firefox by adding Google (in your list of search engines) like this:
google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s