Here's how to get rid of those pesky (and sometimes inaccurate) AI overviews while searching the web using Google.
You can hide AI overviews on your smartphone and desktop computer
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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.
This method will let you hide AI overviews in all your search results, and it doesn't require any additional browser extensions. We tested 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. We have used Chrome for Windows in the example below.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14Swearing at Google eliminates AI overviews from the search results page
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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.
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