"Google web only" and "udm=14" took off because people wanted the old, plain list of links back, no AI Overview, no clutter. Here is how the trick works, why it is fragile, and the alternative that needs no trick.

What "web only" actually means

Google's default results page mixes AI Overviews, modules, shopping, and boxes around the actual links. The "Web" view strips that down to just organic links, the way search looked before all the extras. For a lot of people that is simply easier to read.

The udm=14 trick

  1. Run a Google search.
  2. Add &udm=14 to the end of the URL and press enter, or click the Web filter tab.
  3. You get the plain, link-only results page.
  4. To make it stick, add a custom search shortcut in your browser pointing at the udm=14 URL and set it as default.
why it's fragile
udm=14 is an undocumented parameter. It works now, but Google can change or retire it without notice, and the Web filter sometimes resets on its own. You are leaning on a side door, not a setting.

The simpler version: web-only by default

If web-only is what you actually want, you can have it without the workaround. Bare is link-only by design. There is no AI Overview, no module wall, and nothing to append to a URL. You get a clean list of links and, when the index is confident, a single sourced quick fact.

On top of that you lose the tracking: no account, no history, no behavioral profile, and your query reaches the index through our server instead of straight from your device. Set Bare as your default once and every search is web-only, permanently, with no parameter to babysit.