Tell HN: Add "NSFW" words in your Google query to avoid AI summary

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44727671

by behnamoh • 12 months ago

22 20 12 months ago

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If you add NSFW words (even a simple "nsfw" is enough) in your search query, Google won't show Gemini's summary at the top, and goes straight to results.

rzz3• 12 months ago

This is great. The AI summaries are so horrible.

rl32• 12 months ago

Less exciting, but you can also just include -noai in the query.

idbnstra• 12 months ago

how did you find this out?

rl32• 12 months ago

Probably from this article:

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overview...

It's one of the alternate methods described.

sorokod• 12 months ago

TIL, a possible origin of the English word "nookie"

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nookie#English

Rendello2• 12 months ago

You meant to respond to my comment, not this one.

In any case, this is news to me too, interesting.

Rendello2• 12 months ago

Well, don't do this at work. You might end up with (unexpected but predictable) results!

It reminds me of the time I was trying to find this meme about the NSFW Dutch phrase "neuken in de keuken" (sex in the kitchen) [1], so I Googled those words as best I remembered them and clicked the images tab, and (shockingly) it was all kitchen porn. I guess I forgot that people would look for porn in their native languages.

1. https://img.ifunny.co/images/67b2b1e1f9a27f263f9ed34c32a1166...

bsder• 12 months ago

Yeah. Don't forget that the connector company is spelled Assmann. Two N's.

Do not forget one of those N's when the CEO, CTO and VP of procurement are looking over your shoulder.

BobbyTables2• 12 months ago

With a name like that who would ever want to purchase from Amphenol?

asyx• 12 months ago

That’s a meme? I thought that’s just the 3 words drunk Germans yell on vacation. Kinda like how Dutch people like to yell Schweinehund at my car.

scarface_74• 12 months ago

Well,

I use to live here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumming,_Georgia

You can imagine the kind of results I got if I wasn’t very careful about my search terms…

inkubus• 12 months ago

just use "web" tab in search output

a0sud0a8s• 12 months ago

I updated chrome's default search handler to add the &udm=14 param - which is equivalent.

altairprime• 12 months ago

&udm=14&tbs=li:1

elpocko• 12 months ago

Get worse results by adding unrelated search terms just so you don't have to scroll past a few lines of useful text while you still put up with all the other useless crap. Bizarre solutions to non-existent problems.

How about blocking the div in your adblocker, or running a userscript, or (and I know this sounds crazy) not using the deeply offensive service at all?

tamimio• 12 months ago

I stopped using google as a search engine for almost 2 years now, because I know that the result is there yet google somehow chooses to omit it for whatever reason, defeating its purpose.

metalman• 12 months ago

with java scripts,cookies and DOM storage turned off on an android phone, searches useing yahoo will not display an AI synopsis, except sometimes when it just does, very briefly, display the AI summerary and then reloads without it.....

rajkumarsekar• 12 months ago

Great, thanks for sharing. However, adding 'nsfw' returns different and unrelated content. '-noai' works well.

palata• 12 months ago

Why not just ignoring the AI summary? Google has to pay for the AI summary, right? I'm happy to let them pay and just ignore it.

TheAlchemist• 12 months ago

This also work for 'AI customer service' - using NSFW words make it switch to a human.

Tell HN: Add "NSFW" words in your Google query to avoid AI summary

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