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Avoiding "AI overview" in Google searches

🕕︎ - 2025-07-04
Screenshot showing AI Overview and warning - in Danish - to check the facts yourself

Recently the default search on google.com starts with a section labeled "AI Overview" containing an attempt to generate, uh... well, an answer to your search, I guess?

In my browsers I have defined a shortcut to do a websearch, so I can type "go " and then what to search for. To get rid of the AI overview at the top, you can click the "Web" tab, instead of the default "All".

To make that the default, I have changed the bookmark shortcut to http://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s (adding udm=14&) so I don't have to wait for and look at the "AI Overview."

Yay!

🕕︎ - 2025-07-04 - 0 comments

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