Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

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    I just wish I could search a term of more than 2 words and get relevant results rather than pages that contain at least one of the words in high volumes. That’s the only reason I ever use google, for years now. Encasing the words in quotes doesn’t seem to function at all on DDG, either.

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      I’ve found that search engines in general, including Google, really don’t like to listen to the whole thing I typed in.

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      DDG has had cost issues with some of the more complex queries. Exclusions (-) for example are very expensive, as Bing recently raised their prices. I think this is why search has gotten worse with DDG recently.

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        Here are the same queries with Kagi (I was interested to see the difference)

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              I was gonna ask if your OS displays 🧑‍🧒 in color, or if you were searching a different emoji.

              Less than two hours later, Google forgot how to find the right emoji!

              Regarding my pondering, now I see Emojipedia moved the by-platform Emoji icons to the Designs tab.

              In the meantime I learned Wikipedia redirects 🧑‍🧒 to “Family” :)

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                Yeah the colors come from the os, my keyboard shows the monochrome one when I pick it. That was all very interesting!