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After Google launched AI Overviews in May of this year, the company quickly made headlines for erroneous search results suggesting that users eat rocks or add glue to pizza. The feature uses artificial intelligence to summarize search results in an effort to answer the question it believes users are seeking to answer with their searches.
These often wildly incorrect AI summaries led many users to wonder how to turn off AI Overview in Google search results. Several fixes are available, both temporary and permanent.
If you sometimes refer to AI Overviews but want to eliminate them from showing up when you enter certain queries, there are three quick solutions for this artificial intelligence dilemma:
While the three hacks above work in a pinch, it can be tedious to type in "-AI" or "&udm=14" or click the Web tab for every single search. However, there's a way to set up a custom Google Search engine that will permanently stop artificial intelligence summaries from showing up for all future searches.
To set up a custom search engine, you must have a Google account and be logged into the Google Chrome browser.
The "&udm=14" will now be applied to every Google search moving forward, eliminating the AI Overview from your Google Search results page.