Returning to old style Google search

[Hotwired]

Been getting more cheesed off about Google presenting related suggestions, hallucinations about what I really meant and maximum effort to push a sale from the companies paying for advertising.

Turns out you can still ask for and get old fashioned keyword searches minus all that crap.

Maybe that's not for everyone or even to be used always but I do like a good keyword and searching for exact phrases and getting a list of results for what I said, how I said it.

Under tools you can select verbatim results and get the old style search.

With some fiddling you can get it to be your default too.

 

[Hotwired]

Actually asking for verbatim search doesn't get you the completely stripped back search. You still get "People also ask" and videos and short videos and "People also search for" stuffed in the results.

The advert swarm is gone though which might be enough.

This is what mine looks like right now: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cheese+cracker&udm=14&tbs=li:1

I've put this address as the search engine to use for searches (in firefox but probably same anywhere): https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%s&udm=14&tbs=li:1 and all the modern features are gone.