Google’s AI overviews for search results are design to quickly offer summaries of results, using artificial intelligence (AI). As these can be usefull to get a bird’s-eye view of search results, they can also offer provide factually incorrect information, based on data source from sketchy sources.
Users who want to switch back to a simpler version of Google’s search engine that excludes search results can follow two methods that clean up the results page so that it shows only links that match their search query.
You might want to get rid of Google’s AI overviews in your search results for faster searches, or perhaps you just don’t want to see the AI-generate box at the top of the page for aesthetic reasons.
If you want to hide the AI overviews, you can modify your search bar settings in your browser to hide these results, or use a more irreverent method to do so.
How to Hide Google AI Overviews in Search Results by Default?
This method will let you hide AI overviews in all your search results, and it doesn’t require any additional browser extensions.
2YoDo test this process on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge for Windows and Android, but it should work on every browser that allows you to use a custom search engine as we have use Chrome for Windows.
Follow These Steps :
- Launch Google Chrome.
- Click on the three-dot menu icon in the top right corner of the screen.
- Select Settings.
- Click on Search engine.
- Then find Manage search engines and site search.
- Look for the Site search section and click the Add button.
- In the window that pops up, name your custom search engine and paste the following text in the URL field:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 - Click Save.
- Click on the three-dot menu.
- Select Make default.
- Type your search term in the address bar and press the Enter key to see AI overview-free search results.
How to Use Swear Words to Hide Google AI Overviews in Search Results?
If you’re using someone else’s device and don’t want to make any change to the search engine settings, or if you just want to quickly see search results without fiddling with any browser settings, you can, as discover by the folks over at Lifehacker, simply swear at Google.
Follow These Steps :
- Open Google Chrome on your smartphone or desktop computer.
- Type out your search query.
- Add an expletive to the start of the search query.
- Press the Enter key to view your search results without any AI overviews.
