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I am the code that makes everyone’s favorite search engine usable again. Proof you can make something go viral with a swear word on the front page of the website. Swears: udm14.com No swears: udm14.org

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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A whole lot of nothing? Yeah, thought so. udm14.com
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 19/05/2026
Google I/O, or as I like to call it, @udm14.bsky.social goes viral yet again day. For what it’s worth, I’ve been keeping an eye on the web search trying to figure out if Google will squash it. It celebrates its two-year anniversary on Thursday. They’ve barely messed with it.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 19/05/2026
Around two years after its launch, @udm14.bsky.social is still getting introduced to folks. It appeared in @morningbrew.bsky.social this morning.
To-Do List

✔ Bake: Don't be a hero, just make Dolly Parton's blueberry muffin mix for breakfast.**

✔ Read like a billionaire: JPMorgan's summer reading list for the wealthy.

✔ Search: A site that searches the web with no Al overview.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 15/05/2026
Closing in on the two-year anniversary of discovering the &udm=14 hack. Who here is still using it after all this time? cc @udm14.bsky.social
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 23/02/2026
Kill it with CSS.
20 @-moz-document domain(*mail.google.com") {
21 div[aria-label="Smart Polish suggestion"] {
22   display: none !important;
23 |}
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25 span.Asgive {
26 border-bottom: none !important;
27   background-image: none !important;
28 }
29 }
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
udm14 is supporting the cause.
Help my friend Chris clear off his bucket list. Share his story on Facebook and Bluesky.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Heads-up: udm56 is no longer working—Google appears to have disabled that. We’ve added a redirect to udm14.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 06/08/2025
Well, @udm14.bsky.social’s biggest referrer is Google.
udm14.com top referral sources
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Here’s @tedium.co’s assessment of the changes to the Web view we’re based on. Does it break what we do? No—but it could add an extra step to searches. tedium.co/2025/07/25/g...
tedium.co
Google Web Guide: Does It Break &udm=14? No, But …
Google announces a plan to add yet another barrier to the ease of getting an ultra-simple Web search. Great.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I have some bad news
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We added this piece to the @udm14.bsky.social homepage. Our tool makes AI overviews less annoying, but in aggregate, the knock-on effects matter. We hope you click the link and read Emanuel’s excellent piece.
&udm=14 homepage, now with a 404 Media link
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Shockingly, our little hack is still making waves. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
Analysis | Try these hidden ‘NOPE’ buttons to stop AI content
How to turn off AI in Google and DuckDuckGo web search results, plus a no-AI nuclear option.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
aww, I have a little brother
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 19/06/2025
I’m on top of it
udm56 logo
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 22/05/2025
In honor of @udm14.bsky.social celebrating its one-year anniversary, I wrote a little thing on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... The power of small experiments is that they can sometimes become big ideas.
linkedin.com
A year ago today, I had a weird idea, and despite a couple of competing… | Ernie Smith
A year ago today, I had a weird idea, and despite a couple of competing deadlines, a deep desire to see it through. That idea turned into the most viral thing I’ve ever been associated with in my ent...
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Oh shit I forgot about this guy. I don’t usually interact with haters, but I felt it was important to interact with you because nobody else does
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Hi, today is our one-year anniversary. Nobody bake us a cake. Fix Google search instead.
media.tenor.com
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Shockingly, we’re still here. udm14.com
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
*deep sigh*
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo anything but that
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 05/03/2025
The most important news in this post is that they have not broken @udm14.bsky.social. blog.google/products/sea...
blog.google
Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode
AI Mode is a new generative AI experiment in Google Search.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
For transparency, a quick note: We added a small ad to support server costs. It is from a trusted partner we’ve worked with for years, and can be easily ignored. If you don’t want it, the original version is here: udm14.com/old/
udm14.com
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code (Old Version)
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hi, we’re the 912 of search. udm14.com
Oh, and don’t bother calling 911 anymore. Here’s the real number.

Image: Homer Simpson looking at “912” on a sheet of paper.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
According to @metafilter.bsky.social if you put a swear word in your search you can skip the AI. I think that means &udm=14 is also a swear word according to Google. Fuck yeah! www.metafilter.com/207430/Spoil...
metafilter.com
Spoiler: the magic word isn't 'please.'
A simple trick to keep google from putting AI slop before your search results.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
udm14’s biggest referrer is Google, which is pretty funny if you think about it.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Next up: “udm14 but for Gemini“
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
hello to those just finding out about us
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hi, we’re the 912 of search. udm14.com
Oh, and don’t bother calling 911 anymore. Here’s the real number.

Image: Homer Simpson looking at “912” on a sheet of paper.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If you want your search experience to be more like the “then” side of things, we can help.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Little early for the McDonald’s sign, probably.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
You think a newsletter that writes about cheese curls would appreciate humility. But shockingly, no.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This week, we celebrate our six-month anniversary by … um, writing this post highlighting the feat, and just being useful. Congrats, I guess?
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
so we heard this place has the juice
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
The bosses forced me to add a promo link to this landing page. Please don’t make them mad. I can’t take another hit to the ego. tedium.eo.page/udm14-signup
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
We don’t make changes often, but the search button on mobile moved below the search box. Only one person raised an issue about it, and that person was using the largest text size in Android, but something tells us other people might appreciate this, too.
An update to udm14 that moves the button below the search box.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
We didn’t make this, but tell your friends: It looks cool. apps.apple.com/gb/app/udm14...
apps.apple.com
‎udm14 for Safari
‎Like Google search results, but hate Google search UX? udm14 for Safari automatically redirects Google searches to 'web' mode by default to filter out all the cruft. Simply enable the extension in Sa...
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
We’re moving up in the world!
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Shout-out to our monopolist business partner, Google. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/t...
nytimes.com
Google Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search, Judge Rules
The landmark ruling by Judge Amit P. Mehta was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet era in a case against a technology giant.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
On the one hand, thanks to the creator of this YouTube short for promoting #udm14. We need all the support we can get. On the other hand, going all AI art and voice with this was …certainly, a choice. www.youtube.com/shorts/6_WZa...
youtube.com
Tired of wading through ads and AI on search
short about udm14.com
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
It’s OK, I got udm15 dot com ready to deploy on a moment’s notice … loser
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
Hey, it’s not my fault useful tools are more popular than sites about *check notes* glass jars.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
We have a new companion site. May you make your own dumb internet projects and see what happens with them.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Our deeply confusing pseudo-search engine wins over another group of internet adventurers
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
The fine people at DuckDuckGo don’t like swearing in the tagline. Check.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
By the time we’re done, every Google happening is going to have some insane tagline attached to it.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
Uh-oh.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 28/05/2024
Google invented a society improving thing and admitted right off the bat that accepting advertising for it would be like drinking poison. The problem was, rather than skipping out on drinking poison, they asked how much poison they could drink while still being somewhat functional.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
A quick note on privacy. You care about it, and so does our weird little site. Our logs are off—and we plan to keep it that way. In terms of standard Web analytics, we use a self-hosted instance of Plausible, a privacy-focused tool that only presents data in aggregate. plausible.io/privacy-focu...
plausible.io
Plausible: Privacy focused Google Analytics alternative
Plausible provides cookie-less web analytics without collecting personal data and while respecting the privacy of your website visitors.
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&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
*nod* You should be friends with your search engine.
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