Reposted by &udm=14Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 19/05/2026Google 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. 197
Reposted by &udm=14Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 19/05/2026Around two years after its launch, @udm14.bsky.social is still getting introduced to folks. It appeared in @morningbrew.bsky.social this morning. 1123
Reposted by &udm=14Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 15/05/2026Closing 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 162
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Heads-up: udm56 is no longer working—Google appears to have disabled that. We’ve added a redirect to udm14. 01110
Reposted by &udm=14Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 06/08/2025Well, @udm14.bsky.social’s biggest referrer is Google. 2164
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Here’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.coGoogle 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. 021
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 23/07/2025We 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. 02118
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Shockingly, our little hack is still making waves. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Try these hidden ‘NOPE’ buttons to stop AI contentHow to turn off AI in Google and DuckDuckGo web search results, plus a no-AI nuclear option. 1136
Reposted by &udm=14Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 22/05/2025In 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.comA year ago today, I had a weird idea, and despite a couple of competing… | Ernie SmithA 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... 1103
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Oh 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 070
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Hi, today is our one-year anniversary. Nobody bake us a cake. Fix Google search instead.media.tenor.comkermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room . 1191
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 12/03/2025noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo anything but that 192
Reposted by &udm=14Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 05/03/2025The most important news in this post is that they have not broken @udm14.bsky.social. blog.google/products/sea...blog.googleExpanding AI Overviews and introducing AI ModeAI Mode is a new generative AI experiment in Google Search. 081
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 01/03/2025For 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. 040
Reposted by &udm=14&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Hi, we’re the 912 of search. udm14.com 02411
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 31/01/2025According 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.comSpoiler: the magic word isn't 'please.'A simple trick to keep google from putting AI slop before your search results. 052
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 30/01/2025udm14’s biggest referrer is Google, which is pretty funny if you think about it. 0130
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 12/12/2024If you want your search experience to be more like the “then” side of things, we can help. 01912
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 18/11/2024You think a newsletter that writes about cheese curls would appreciate humility. But shockingly, no. 100
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 18/11/2024This week, we celebrate our six-month anniversary by … um, writing this post highlighting the feat, and just being useful. Congrats, I guess? 111
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 28/10/2024The 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-signuptedium.eo.pageLike udm14? Subscribe to Tedium!If you dig udm14, support the long-running Tedium newsletter. 000
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 09/10/2024We 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. 172
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 20/08/2024We didn’t make this, but tell your friends: It looks cool. apps.apple.com/gb/app/udm14...apps.apple.comudm14 for SafariLike 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... 031
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 05/08/2024Shout-out to our monopolist business partner, Google. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/t...nytimes.comGoogle Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search, Judge RulesThe landmark ruling by Judge Amit P. Mehta was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet era in a case against a technology giant. 011
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 10/06/2024On 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.comTired of wading through ads and AI on searchshort about udm14.com 000
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 08/06/2024It’s OK, I got udm15 dot com ready to deploy on a moment’s notice … loser 020
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 08/06/2024Hey, it’s not my fault useful tools are more popular than sites about *check notes* glass jars. 000
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 07/06/2024We have a new companion site. May you make your own dumb internet projects and see what happens with them. 022
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 07/06/2024Our deeply confusing pseudo-search engine wins over another group of internet adventurers 122
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 03/06/2024The fine people at DuckDuckGo don’t like swearing in the tagline. Check. 021
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 30/05/2024By the time we’re done, every Google happening is going to have some insane tagline attached to it. 033
Reposted by &udm=14Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 28/05/2024Google 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. 713813
&udm=14 @udm14.bsky.social · 28/05/2024A 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.ioPlausible: Privacy focused Google Analytics alternativePlausible provides cookie-less web analytics without collecting personal data and while respecting the privacy of your website visitors. 151