You pull out your phone to look something up on Google.Maybe you're researching a purchase or trying to find a restaurant.
You expect a list of websites.Instead, Google serves up a lengthy artificial intelligence-generated answer before you even get to the search results.
Sound familiar? I like AI when it helps me get something done.But sometimes I just want to search the internet without an AI summary appearing every time.Fortunately, there are ways around it.
One involves adding a few characters to your search.Another uses a built-in Google filter.
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(Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)Google calls those automatically generated summaries AI Overviews.They appear above traditional search results when Google's systems decide an AI-generated answer might be helpful.
Sometimes they save time.However, they can also get in the way when you'd rather read information directly from a website.
Unfortunately, Google confirms that AI Overviews cannot be permanently turned off through a standard Search setting.However, you have a few ways to avoid them.This trick takes only seconds and is wo...