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Google adds a new “Web” filter so you can use the search engine as before

Yesterday, Google broadcast the I/O 2024 conference for developers, an event in which the company presents its new projects, advances and its new products for the current fiscal year. As expected, this presentation has been heavily featured by Gemini, Google’s Artificial Intelligence. However, this does not mean that the Internet giant has forgotten its origins. What’s more, during the presentation it also presented a very important change for its search engine.

If you use Google You will often have seen that it is increasingly difficult to find specific things. When we do a search, Google shows us promoted links, YouTube videos, online purchases, photos and other content that forces us to scroll until we reach the results that really interest us. But, in addition, in these results we find more YouTube videos and other content that does not interest us. Furthermore, in view of the global launch of the AI search resultsthings are not going to get better.

Luckily, Google has listened to its users and has decided to create a new filter that will allow us to search as we did before: without multimedia content or annoying elements.

Google’s new “web” filter

Just as right now we have filters for news, images and videos, among other things, available in the search engine, Google has just launched (for now, only in the United States) a new filter called “Web” What it will allow us to do is show only the results of web pages when doing a search in the browser.

We’ve launched a new “Web” filter that shows only text-based links, just like you might filter to show other types of results, such as images or videos. The filter appears on the top of the results page alongside other filters or as part of the “More” option, rolling out today… https://t.co/rEE3MMBWcH https://t.co/tIUy9LNCy5

May 15, 2024 • 2:01 p.m.

When we do a search, this new filter will appear at the top, along with the others, and will allow us to see only the results that take us to web pages, just as the browser has always worked. Thanks to it, we can hide all the videos, images, purchase recommendations and all the other content that, for most people, is not interesting.

Availability

Initially, right now it is only available in the United States. If we connect to the search engine through a VPN we can see how it appears at the top, under the name “Web”, when doing a search. But in Spain, and in the rest of the countries of the world we will not have to wait long to be able to enjoy it.

According to Google, the company plans to launch this new filter to everyone today. It may not reach all users at once, and activation may occur gradually, but it shouldn’t take much longer. In the worst case, by the end of this week we should all have the new “web” filter activated by default.

The pity is that we cannot choose the search engine we want to use by default. Luckily, with a couple of changes to our browser’s search engine, we can make this new web filter the default when performing any search from the browser’s omnibar. A great novelty, and very necessary, to be able to search on Google again as we did before.


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