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AI · May 17, 2024

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How to Turn Off "AI Overview" in Google Search

I saw a lot of people angry at Google and wanted to turn off "AI Overview" feature. So I wrote a manual on how to do it for Chrome and Firefox, on mobile and desktop.

How to Turn Off "AI Overview" in Google Search launched on May 17, 2024 with 6 votes, #1,748 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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What it does

On May 15th Google released a new "Web" filter that removes "AI Overview" and other clutter, leaving only traditional web results. Here is how you can set "Google Web" as your default search engine. Chrome will show "tenbluelinks.org" as the source where it got the instructions, but all your search queries will be sent directly to Google, not this website. The source code is open, technical details are available below . Chrome will show "tenbluelinks.org" as the source where it got the instructions, but all your search queries will be sent directly to Google, not this website. The source code is open, technical details are available below . Firefox might show "tenbluelinks.org" as the…from tenbluelinks.org

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