In the past few years, companies you use daily have found many opportunities to volunteer you for features you didn’t ask for — and, as of late, it feels like they’re almost always AI features you didn’t ask for.
That’s not always a bad thing! Sometimes new tech includes features that are really innovative and useful. But sometimes you just want a service to work the way it did before — such as your trusty, reliable search engine prior to the introduction of Google’s AI overviews at the top of every search query.
Luckily, some folks on the internet have found reliable workarounds (that we tested) to purge your search results of unwanted AI influence. Here’s how to circumvent the overview:
The On-The-Spot Method
One method to avoid AI results — that won’t entirely rule them out from all of your searches — is to add “-AI” or “-ai” at the end of your search.
