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Comment by rvanmil | Hacker News Reader

On iOS Safari set your search engine to DuckDuckGo, use "!g" to search Google, and you won't see any AMP links.

I tried once but adding g! every time I want to search Google is quite cumbersome so I switched back to Google.

Also, the search results in DDG were quite disappointing. I wish they were not but I just couldn't continue using it after few days :(

I will definitely give it another shot.

I've had the opposite experience (mostly). I switched one day, got frustrated whenever I got bad results, started using !g for those, realized that Google returned equally bad results and now I only search Google for programming questions, which DuckDuckGo can't answer as well.

I've been a happy user for more than a year, and I don't get any of the AMP crap (which apparently isn't even shown on mobile Firefox anyway).

The reason that works is because !g defaults to encrypted.google.com, which doesn’t support AMP yet. I think you can set that as your homepage to make AMP-free search more accessible. As it is, Safari doesn’t seem to support custom search engines.

> I tried once but adding g! every time I want to search Google

But you don't want to search Google. That's why you switched to another search engine, right?

For me DDG works out nicely without any need for !g 19 times out of 20, at least.

I have iOS set to replace gg with !g, which makes it a bit more manageable

If it's overall text replacement then how do you manage something like an aggravation?

PS. I have changed default search engine in OSX/iOS Safari to DDG. Uninstalled Google app and installed DDG app. Let's see.

I wish that iOS safari let you specify your own custom search engine. I really want to write one that wraps ddg and filters out some results / adds a few more custom !'s but haven't found out a way to do it, seems that the search providers are hard coded in settings with no ability to add new ones / API to implement.

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