How to Hide Google AI Overviews in Search Results Temporarily or by Default

Google's AI overviews for search results are designed to quickly offer summaries of results, using artificial intelligence (AI). While these can be handy to get a bird's-eye view of search results, they can also offer provide factually incorrect information, based on data sourced 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-generated 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.

Swearing at Google eliminates AI overviews from the search results page
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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 discovered by the folks over at Lifehacker — simply swear at Google.

1. Open Google Chrome on your smartphone or desktop computer.
2. Type out your search query.
3. Add an expletive to the start of the search query.
4. Press the Enter key to view your search results without any AI overviews.