At Google I/O 2024, the search giant officially announced that it is rolling out AI overviews in Google search for all users. This feature has been launched for users in the United States and will gradually roll out for all users in the coming months.
However, there is a chance that you will see search queries based on AI on Google instead of the website links. The AI Overviews are AI-generated queries for web searches. With the roll-out of this feature, Google shows text-based search results for the search queries instead of the actual website links. This doesn’t mean the search giant will no longer show the website links. The links will appear at the bottom of the page after the AI-generated query. So, if users have to visit a link, then he has to scroll a bit to find the link that they want to visit.
The AI overview will also impact the website’s traffic as it offers the relevant query to the search without the need to visit any website. This article will show you ways to disable AI Overviews in Google search. At the moment, Google does not allow users to disable AI-generated queries in the search, but the company says it is looking for ways for users to disable these AI-generated queries.
However, there are some ways to disable AI Overviews in Google search. The website tenbluelinks offers a guide on disabling AI overviews in Google Chrome on Windows, Android, Mac, and iOS, as well as in Firefox on Mac and Windows.
Check out the step-by-step guide below:
Step 1: Open Google Chrome on Windows or Mac
Step 2: Head to settings, navigate “search engine,” and click “Manage search engines and sites.”
Step 3: Select Add next to the “Site search” section. Then type the name in the “Search Engine” box, add a shortcut, and then paste the following text in the URL box
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14
Step 4: Once done, click the “Add” button at the bottom of the popup box.
Step 5: Click on the three dots next to the URL you just added and select “Make Default.”
This is one way to disable AI Overview in Google search. However, there is another way.
The next method involves installing a uBlock origin ad blocker to disable AI overview in the search. One Reddit user shared this method: you can disable the AI-generated search query by installing the uBlock origin extension on your Google Chrome browser.
After installing the uBlock extension, click on the extension and then click on the settings option. This will take you to the extension’s settings page. On the settings page, click “My Filter,” paste google.com##.GcKpu into the list, and select Apply changes.
