Google’s AI Overview does not save me time. For one, I work for a technical blog and so I am professionally curious as to whether the answers generated are correct or not, so I spend some ticks that detect it. (Answer: Sometimes, but not always,
Things then exist because I consider how long a self-cannaging system can maintain itself-AI gives the answer drawn from the websites that survive from the readers, what happens when no one does not visit those sites because AI responded? Do I still have to write for websites if the websites die of traffic starvation? There is a lot to think that when I want TSA the latest lithium-ion battery rules.
When you go to google “Chrome in Chrome how to close AI overview, the first result does not really answer the question (and immorally). EntryFrom Google support, when AI overview was experimental and handled through Google Labs, the feature was discussed back. Navigate a little more under that page and you will see:
Comment: Closing “AI overview and more” in search laboratories will not disable all AI observation in search. AI overviews are part of Google Search, such as other characteristics, such as knowledge panels, and cannot be closed.
Thankfully, I work with intelligent people and one of them supplied me with a simple method to ensure every discovery made in Chrome browser, which bypasses AI observation and only uses results from web tabs. Here is described how you can also avoid wasted time (and energy) So you can find like this is 2024.
How to close AI overview in Chrome on desktop
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Click on three dots in the upper right corner of your chrome browser
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Go setting , Search attachedE> Manage the search engine and search
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Under Site searchClick Add button
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enter Name: Google/Web
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enter Shortcut: https://www.google.com/
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enter URL: {Google: Baseurl} Search? UDM = 14 & Q =%s
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Click Add
Then, (Hat tip Tom’s hardware To help me get this bit out) set the search type by default by clicking and clicking on three dots next to the shortcut you have created. make default,
Now, go to Google “The Best Laptop Power Banks” and click on Engadget entry (usually one to four results) and spend a few moments of advertisements (and my desk photo), before you move forward so that I can still work in 2026.
Other ways to close AI interview in Google Chrome
In the same Tom’s hardware articleEveram Piltch Link Expansion He created, which is a super easy way to visually hide the AI ​​overview. This will still cause reaction, you will not see it. I prefer the web method above, to avoid any unnecessary machine processing on my behalf, but the extension is easy and keeps you on the knowledge panels, video results and such familiar “all” search results tabs.
To turn off AI observation for Chrome on your phone, I will direct you to people TenbluelinksJust open the link in the browser of your phone and follow the steps for Android or iOS.
