If you’ve done a search on Google recently, you’ve probably seen a wall of text before the actual search results. This feature, called AI Overview, provides an AI-generated response to specific questions. But it pushes your list of links further down the page, making it a little annoying to scroll past when you want to do your own research — and it gets even more annoying when Google starts cramming ads into it.
Although Google does not allow you to disable this feature, there are several ways to get around it
One of the best ways to “disable” this feature is to reconfigure your browser’s default search engine options the site com. tenbluelinks Includes instructions on how to do this in Chrome on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac, and Firefox on Windows and Mac.
The next time you search, you won’t see an AI overview.
There are a few other easy ways to bypass the AI overview feature, including: Origin of uBlock. Found a Reddit user You can bypass the feature by downloading the uBlock extension for your browser. Then go to the settings menu and go My filter Section, insert google.com##.GcKpu in the list, and then select Apply the changes.
Finally, if you want to avoid the AI overview at some point, you can do a search and then select More > Web For a clean (and ad-free) AI-powered website list.
Any of these methods should give you a break from AI search results — at least until Google turns on the “off” button.