You can revert Google to Before They Fucked It Up using a combination of udm14 and verbatim mode. Itās super annoying to do this every time, though. Hereās how to do it for iOS and macOS Safari.
Install Redirect Web and follow the instructions to set it up.
Configure a new redirect matching this image (Iāll copy paste the text blobs below.)
Thatās it. Enjoy using Safari built-in search on Google as though it were years ago, when they didnāt try to make shit up and just searched for what you typed and asked you if you wanted your typos corrected.
If you can afford to, chip in a couple bucks to the Redirect Web developers to fund their $99/yr signing certificate. You donāt have to, I donāt believe? but there are precious few options for iPhone/iPad/Mac users who browse with Safari, and money helps people remember to keep caring about updating their Apple stuff.
The three text blobs are pasted into the Edit screen:
https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?google\.(?:com|com\.[a-z]{2}|co\.[a-z]{2}|[a-z]{2})\/search\?(?:.*&)?q=.*$
$0&udm=14&tbs=li:1
.*[?&](tbm=|udm=).*
And make sure that qty.1 of Type: Original and qty.2 of URL Pattern: Regular Expression are chosen, matching these screenshots:
Thatās it, save it and go do a search. Should be boringly free of crap and exactly as you typed it.
ps. Browser advocates, I recognize that other browsers have more readily-available solutions; literally every other browser makes this easier, so let me just stave you all off by saying that right up front. Please leave this for the Safari users; they shouldnāt have to change browsers to revert Googleās bullshit, so if we can just not all pile on about that in this particular case, it would be a lovely kindness to those that would benefit from this Safari tip.
pps. For other browsers where you can just add a custom search engine, follow the udm14 directions as usual but change &udm=14 to &udm=14&tbs=li:1





















