Google’s search experience has shifted: an AI-first “overview” often appears before traditional web results, preferencing condensed answers and AI-generated summaries before the traditional list of links that you've come to know and love.
There are a number of reasons why this shift is problematic. First, it is difficult to know the sources of the information supplied by the AI overview. This makes it harder to fact check and do comparative searching.
Second, there are some massive environmental implications to this change. Generative AI results require a great deal of additional server-side computation every time they’re requested, which drastically increases the energy and carbon footprint of a single search, compared with returning cached, index-based web links.
When millions of searches are routed through the AI pipelines by default, that incremental cost adds up very quickly.
There currently doesn't exist a way for users to disable “AI overview”. One can select the “Web” tab on the results page, but by then it's too late. This tool solves that problem by sending you to the Web tab immediately, bypassing the AI overview entirely.
This project isn’t an attack on AI. It’s a response to the shift mentioned above, and represents two simple ideas: (1) Users should be able to choose how they search, and (2) AI shouldn't be opt-in by default, especially with no way to opt out.
This tool doesn’t scrape Google or impersonate any service — it simply
redirects to the official Google search results page by using a “URL query
parameter” that opens the Web tab directly. Appending &udm=14 to
a Google search URL forces the results page to open on the Web tab instead of
the AI-first overview in the All tab. It looks like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=your+search+query&udm=14
When you click the search button on this page, you still go to Google and use Google search infrastructure — you’re only changing which results tab is shown first. By going straight to the Web tab, the AI overview is not triggered, saving energy and giving you choice.
If you frequently perform Google searches by using the URL bar in your browser, you can set your browser to use a different search engine, or to use the same feature that this site uses: redirecting straight to the "Web" tab.
Here are instructions for the most popular browsers:
When it asks you to put in the search query, use this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google
LLC. It simply redirects your search query to Google Search using a publicly
available URL parameter (&udm=14), which opens the Web results
tab directly instead of the AI-generated overview on the “All” tab. This
site makes no modifications to Google Search or its content — it only
changes which results view is loaded.
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This site does not collect, log, or share any personal data, search queries, analytics, or usage statistics.
No cookies are used for tracking or advertising purposes.
The only data stored on your device is your theme preference (light or dark
mode), which is saved locally in your browser’s localStorage so
that your preference persists between visits.
This information never leaves your device and cannot be accessed by the site owner or any third party.
All searches are handled directly by Google. When you perform a search, your query is sent to Google, and their Privacy Policy applies to the results you see.