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How to turn off AI overviews for Google search

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Want the familiar Google search back? Here’s how you can get it. Whether you want it or not, Google’s AI Overviews are here to stay. There have been mixed responses to the AI-organized summaries that now appear at the top of your Google search results after you ask a question, leading Google to address the concerns.

Initially, AI Overviews appeared only if you had signed up for Search Labs, which lets you participate in Google’s latest AI experiments. Now, the AI-created summaries have been pushed out to everyone in the US.

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If you don’t see AI Overviews in Google yet, it’s just a matter of time. Google’s Gemini generative AI model powers these summaries, but Gemini — like others right now — is not always accurate. Overviews have already suggested eating pizza with glue and drinking urine to quickly pass a kidney stone.

AI Overviews are generated answers to the questions you ask on Google search. Google said Overviews would start appearing at the top of search starting May 14 whenever Google’s search systems determine that these types of AI-generative responses can quickly provide useful information.

For example, if you typed, “What’s the shortest war in history?” in Google search, you may see something about the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, thanks to Overviews. Underneath the AI-generated summary, you’ll see links to all the resources used, which you can click to check out the websites where the information is pulled from.

Google started testing AI Overviews in 2023 with a small group of people who signed up in Search Labs, where Google experiments with possible search capabilities. During the latest Google I/O conference, they announced that it would be rolling out AI Overviews to hundreds of millions of users in the US, with more countries coming soon. Google expects to bring AI Overviews to over a billion people by the end of this year.

Now, to the important question: Is there any way to turn off Overviews in your search results?

AI Overviews is already turned off in Search Labs, and if anything, all we could do is boost AI Overviews to cover more search topics when we turn it on in Labs. On the Labs page, Google said, “Turning [the AI Overviews and more experiments] off does not disable Overviews in Search outside of Labs.”

If you enable the Overviews experimental setting, you can ask more complex questions in Google searches and receive fuller Overviews. You can ask something like, “Create a 5-day meal plan that includes blueberries,” and you’ll get a generated response. Great for people who love blueberries, but bad for people who just aren’t into AI.

Google may not give us an obvious way to turn off AI Overviews in Google search, but there are some workarounds.

By using these workarounds, you can still enjoy a more traditional search experience without the interference of AI Overviews.

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