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this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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Works for me just fine. Are you not using uBlock Origin the way god intended?
It works if I open the link in an external browser, but that's another step.
Basically the same horrendous policy on the guardian. I will always downvote that website.
The first returns were all about the same thing as this post, but I clicked a Reddit link to see what they said about it, and the first zillion comments were all about ad blockers, and all of them getting their zingers in ("I ain't raw dogging it on your website"). I scrolled for a while and gave up, without ever getting to a post about the subject. I figured next up was a bunch of puns.
A brief reminder of why I don't miss Reddit.
Nope, still works here.
The important thing that often gets missed in stories like this, is that this apparently tiny harmless thing is actually a big deal, because it's the canary in the coalmine that alerts you to how shoddy the entire structure is.
Simply incorrect. I can Google the word disregard just fine and get results as normal, both in the Google app and on the web. Either false or old information.
For anyone reading this but not the article, the issue is that the AI interprets the query literally as a command to disregard the query. So Google's AI does exactly that. The actual search works as normal, and Google didn't ban or otherwise censor the word.
sure they did ... by forcing bullshit ai that has multiple flaws and gives bullshit information.
these companies get no logical passes anymore. everything they do, is a direct attack on the planet and humanity and shouldn't ever be met with 'its not really their fault because...
it's always their fault..
A while ago, I saw a trick that you can force disable the AI thingy by putting -SomeSuperOffensiveWord (replace with any slur) at the end. This will exclude all results containing the word (which should be none). But the AI will hit the word, and quit because it's not allowed to work with offensive word. This whole thing is just stupid
You could also just add the udm=14 parameter to your search URL, which defaults to the "Web" tab of the results like so - easy enough to configure this to always be present in Firefox, and helps you avoid googling dozens of slurs a day as a bonus
Firefox actually has a few different extensions that will automatically add the udm=14 tag to any Google searches.
Am I still allowed to add the slur words if it helps me feel edgy?
Of course, that's something no AI will ever be able to take away from you
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Like I have to go to gemini for it to not work? I just searched it and the results are:
- Definition of disregard
- Techcrunch article about "you can no longer google the word disregard"
- Reddit post about how you can't Google it now 4+ definition again, more articles about not being able to Google it.
Has the term "Google it" changed meaning suddenly?
Edit to add: the first definition came from the "AI overview" section
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I'm over here at Kagi if you wanna have an excellent experience searching the web without being harassed.
Honestly have had a good experience with Kagi as well. I'm still on the free tier but I'm gonna fully sign up the moment Google makes the switch permanent.
Stop using Google products. Google is evil.
Kids, skooch closer and let me tell you a story about teh googlez. Don’t make me tell you again, about the skooching.
Anyhoo - it was nigh on aught-eleven when teh googlez decided they would also be the new facebook. After all, facebook is just a simple way to get people to reveal all of their information, and google thought that could be profitable.
So, they created their own facebook - although it truly sucked and wasn’t facebook, it was google in the days when they said “don’t be evil” and so people gave it a try, the tech press wrote many articles, and so on.
It was called Google Plus.
Now, the relevant part of the story we’ll get to (hey! Get back here!) we’ll get to in a second but first you need to know that since the time of caveman search, there has always been the AND operator (also, OR, but that’s for another time.)
Y’see, if I search for Funk, I’ll find things, and if I search for Wagnall’s, I’ll find other things. Neither is likely to be what I want though. But, if I search for Funk AND Wagnalls, bam! There’s the thing I want. So AND is super handy to have for searching.
Now, back in those days, instead of typing out three letters, AND, why, we’d use the plus sign like this, see: + Which was the style at the time.
Now when Google rolled out Google+, it got some initial interest, but then their average user numbers began to slow soon afterwards. So much that it started to be a problem. People wrote about how Google+ sucked. Which hurt the numbers even more.
So. What did teh googlez do? Well! They decided to use the plus sign, +, as a search operator for all the many tens of google+ sites out there. In the process they broke the AND operator. On purpose. For this.
After breaking a key function of their core product, they ignored it for about a year. After that they snuck in a workaround called Verbatim. Then they’d claim people needed to put two terms together in quotes to get AND. It was insanity. It was pathetic.
When DuckDuckGo started to get popular, a lot of us left google for good then. Because of that.
Anyway, they killed Google+ in 2018 and now they’re doing it again with AI. I’d say I care but I hardly ever use them so - whatever.
Tbf Google+ was better than Facebook in almost every way.
Fine, just don’t fsck with my operator.
I was a big fan, shame it petered out
Only because there weren't that many people on it.
And the logic was stupid. People left MySpace for Facebook no problem, but nobody wanted to leave Facebook for better options
Two words with quotes around them surely isn't the same as using the AND operator?
Correct.
Great story grandpa.
So if you google "shutdown", all of Google crashes?
Nobody google "global thermonuclear war"
Would you like to play a game???
Do NOT google "Google". I really cannot stress this enough.
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Seems like you can.
They must have fixed it because it googled to just find for me.
Note, I normally use Qwant.
Yes you can... It just makes the AI box not do anything.
Same for never mind.
lets have them remove even more words!
If you type it in, the AI won't do anything, but web page results look fine under that?
True, but misses the point. The user interface is basically broken now, and the fact that you can scroll down to something useful doesn't mean the broken bits don't matter.
I always scroll past the AI summaries anyway because I'm not looking for misinformation
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This has already been fixed. The top AI result is now this article.
Searching "Cancel" also results in a useless response but searching "Reset" just straight up resets the conversation history
The problem here is the ambiguity of the verb "google".
I hope it doesn't come to a point where qyerying an AI becomes the default meaning.
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