I'll get straight to the point: there's no "off" button for Google's new AI Overviews feature. There is ??? ??? ?? ??????? ????????instead a "Web" button, buried in the "More" section of Google's familiar row of buttons that look sort of like folder tabs, along side things like "Images" and "News."
Credit: Mashable screenshot of a Google search results page Searching the new "Web" tab will get you the sort of results page you're used to, with no AI-written summary of Google's finding — just some links.
Credit: Mashable screenshot of a Google search results page There's a more elaborate, but muchmore complete solution to your problem as well, and I'll go into that below. Using the Web option, however, is the simplest way out of the mess you've found yourself in.
To back up a bit, Google is an AI company now, and as such, it fire-hosed new AI features out into the world earlier this week at its developer conference, Google I/O. This was just one of those.
AI overviews aren't quite new. They've been available as an opt-in for the AI-curious for months, but Google apparently liked what it was seeing, and turned them into the default for hundreds of millions of users across the U.S., with a planned expansion to over a billion users around the world in the works.
SEE ALSO: Google is lowering deepfake porn in search rankingsBroadly speaking, users who don't like this feature must choose the Web option — manually — for each search. Though it's also worth noting that as of my tests on Thursday, May 16, 2024, the AI Overview feature was not on by default in the Safari or Microsoft Edge browsers. Of my browsers, only Chrome brought up Overviews automatically. So for the time being, not using Chrome might be one way to escape from the feature.
But if a) you're a dedicated Chrome user, b) you use the url bar to search, and c) you have two minutes to mess with your Chrome, settings, there is an easy way to stop seeing AI Overviews by default without changing the way you search. Credit where credit is due, I got this from an article at Tom's Hardware. I tested it, and it works.
Step 1: Navigate to your search engine settings
Enter "chrome://settings/searchEngines" into your url bar and press return.
Credit: Mashable screenshot of Chrome Step 2: Below your list of search engines, click the Add button to the right of Site Search
Credit: Mashable screenshot from Chrome Step 3: Enter "{ google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" under "URL with %s in place of query"
You'll also need to enter "Google" under shortcut, and give this search engine a name, such as "Google (Web)."
Credit: Mashable screenshot from Chrome Step 4: Once that's created, hit the hamburger button and click "Make default"
Credit: Mashable screenshot from Chrome As long as you're using the browser where you tweaked this setting, you'll be able to live in the world before the AI revolution. But only time will tell how long you can really blind yourself to this new reality.
Anyway, good luck!
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