&udm=14 Search Hack: Could It Be In Danger Of Breaking? – Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Over the past year or so, I have had this unusual web presence in my life in the form of udm14.com, a website designed to make it a little easier to reach a cruft-free Google search.
It is nothing special, when broken down. It is a redirect to a less-cluttered version of Google’s own search tool, defaulting to its Web view, which had been buried in Google’s own interface seemingly to minimize it.
At times, the search has stopped working. But for the most part, the &udm=14 tag has worked as a great way to get Google out of its own way. Per my analytics, it’s served 1.5 million people since last May.
But recently, I was informed by Zack Boehm, a user on Mastodon, of a question posed by Google’s Opinion Rewards program. Simply put: it is considering a change to the interface of the Web search interface that adds AI generated results to the search page. Here’s the screenshot I was sent:
Obviously, if it happens, this doesn’t make &udm=14 totally useless, but it definitely…
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