@daringfireball FWIW here’s a bookmarklet to convert the currently-viewed Google search to the new clean “Web” view:
javascript:document.location+='&udm=14'
To use in Safari, for example: bookmark any random page temporarily, and then you can edit the address to this instead. If you make this one of your top several Favorites, you can access it quickly just by tapping the URL bar.
(I wrote that whole thing in one sitting. No breaks. Not even a drink of water.) #googlesearch#google#aislop
If you're still using Google (try DuckDuckGo instead?) for some reason and want REAL search results, make sure to use that More dropdown and the Web option/feature this article mentions at the end, the one I joked about yesterday. Here's a little longer piece about all Google's changes, etc.
"A few years back, a writer in a developing country started doing contract work for a company called AdVon Commerce, getting a few pennies per word to write online product reviews.
But the writer — who like other AdVon sources interviewed for this story spoke on condition of anonymity — recalls that the gig's responsibilities soon shifted. Instead of writing, they were now tasked with polishing drafts generated using an AI system the company was developing, internally dubbed MEL."