You can get rid of AI Overviews in Google Search

May 23, 2024 02:38 AM - 5 months ago 48296

If you’ve searched for thing connected Google lately, you might’ve noticed a wall of matter that appears earlier nan existent hunt results. This feature, called AI Overviews, offers an AI-generated reply to definite queries. But it besides pushes your database of links further down nan page, which makes it a spot annoying to scroll past erstwhile you want to do your ain investigation — and it will get moreover much annoying erstwhile Google starts stuffing ads into it.

But moreover though Google doesn’t fto you disable nan feature, location are a fewer ways astir it.

One of nan champion ways to “turn off” nan characteristic is to reconfigure your browser’s default hunt motor options. The website tenbluelinks offers instructions connected really to do this successful Chrome connected Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac arsenic good arsenic successful Firefox connected Windows and Mac.

You tin artifact AI Overviews by configuring your default hunt motor URL.

Screenshot: Emma Roth / The Verge

  • In Chrome connected Windows aliases Mac, caput to Settings > Search motor > Manage hunt engines and tract search.
  • From there, prime Add adjacent to nan “Site search” section.
  • Add a nickname for your AI-less type of Google successful nan “Name” section, adhd a shortcut, and paste successful this URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14.
  • When you’re done, deed Save aliases Add. Then prime nan 3 dots adjacent to nan introduction and take Make default.

The adjacent clip you behaviour a search, you should nary longer spot AI Overviews.

Or you tin effort mounting a select successful uBlock.

Screenshot: Emma Roth / The Verge

There are immoderate different elemental ways to debar AI Overviews, too, including pinch uBlock Origin. One Reddit personification found that you tin debar nan characteristic by downloading nan uBlock hold for your browser. You past caput to nan settings menu, spell to nan My filters section, paste google.com##.GcKpu into nan list, and prime Apply changes.

You tin besides effort Bye Bye, Google AI, a Chrome hold created by Tom’s Hardware’s Avram Piltch. The hold uses CSS to hide AI Overviews by default, but you tin besides customize it to region Google’s discussions section, shopping blocks, sponsored links, and more. Tedium also lists immoderate solutions for getting free of AI Overviews, including successful Safari.

And finally, if you conscionable want to debar AI Overviews occasionally, you tin do your search, past prime More > Web to get an AI Overviews-less (and ad-less) database of sites.

Any of these methods should springiness you a break from AI hunt results — astatine slightest until Google rolls retired an “off” button.

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