Security News > 2024 > May > Frustration grows over Google's AI Overviews feature, how to disable

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.

AI Overviews, also known as "Search Generative Experience," is Google's new search feature that summarizes web content using its in-house LLM. Google says AI overviews appear only when the search engine believes it can provide more value than traditional blue links.

Google AI Overviews recently told searchers to drink two quarts of urine when they asked how to pass kidney stones quickly.

Google says that AI Overviews cause people to "Use Search more, and are more satisfied with their results," but that doesn't seem to be the case based on the many Google support forum questions on how to turn off the 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.

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.

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