Since Google enabled its AI-powered search feature, many people have tried and failed to disable the often incorrect AI Overviews feature in regular search results.
When you're signed into Google and search for general topics like how to install one of Windows 11's recent updates, Google's AI will rewrite content from independent websites and summarize it in its own words.
This feature may sound good in theory, but Google's AI integration has several quality issues, including causing a slight delay as it generates the answer and, even more problematic, sometimes displaying incorrect information.
Google AI Overviews recently told searchers to drink two quarts of urine when they asked how to pass kidney stones quickly.
While initially released as an opt-in Search Labs experiment, Google recently began rolling out AI Overviews to everyone in the United States whether they want it or not, with other countries coming soon.
As the posts on Google forums suggest, early feedback on Google AI Overviews has been negative, with people finding the feature unnecessary and often misleading.
There is no way to disable it now that it is out of Search Labs, and Google has quickly locked support threads for many people asking how to do so.
For those who don't want to see AI Overviews, we can use this new Web search feature to get rid of Google's AI feature.
If you dislike Google AI Overviews, you can force Google to always show Web search results without AI summaries, videos, images, and other search features.
Open Google Chrome, click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner, and select Settings.
In the Add search engine dialog, enter a name for your search engine.
For a shortcut, enter a keyword to quickly use this search engine from the address bar.
Click on the three-dot menu next to the new search engine you created and select Make Default.
The new search engine will now appear as the default under Search engines.
Now, when you search from the address bar in Google Chrome, it will perform the search using Google's new Web search feature instead. To switch back to the previous Google search, just go back into the Search settings and set Google as the default search engine.
This extension allows you to hide the generative search overviews from Google.com without changing settings manually.
On mobile devices, you'll need to install Firefox and change its search engine settings to force the above entry point.
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This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Sun, 19 May 2024 17:50:06 +0000