One &udm After Another

Google made everyone mad again, so another wave of people just learned about &udm=14. Maybe we should all take the hint.Today in Tedium: When I spent two hours of my time, working against a deadline, deciding that I needed to build a workaround hack for Google’s AI overviews, I had no expectation as to what that would end up being. Two years later, the site is still online, despite people constantly telling me Google would kill it any day now. But meanwhile, Google has gradually let its golden goose decline over a vague belief that chatbots are the new search. (That belief got more specific at Google I/O last week. More on that later.) Yet it’s clear there’s a demand for the old thing. &udm=14, the site I built on that fateful day in a Panera, goes viral frequently. Last week, it had another one of those moments, in the wake of Google screwing with the thing people rely on yet again. Morning Brew and TechCrunch recently shouted it out, and The Verge once linked it out one day, months…