How to Turn off Google AI in Search Results


key Takeaways

1. Click on the flask icon located in the top right corner of the desktop and top left corner on mobile.

2. click on "AI Overview and more"

3. turn off the toggle of AI overview.

Want to know how to turn off Google AI In search results that show generated answers for you called ai overview.

Sadly there are no official options to stop Google Generative AI in search results but we have some tested ways to stop Google AI from appearing in search results,

Here are some tested ways that you can use to turn off Google AI Overview.

Method 1: Use Google search without signing in account 

The easiest and most convenient way to stop Google AI in search results is to use Google search without signing in to Google or your default browser.

here are screenshots of the same Google query with and without a sign-in Google account,

i searched the same question in Google signed-in mode and incognito mode see,

google ai is turned on in signed in mode in google chrome

you can see that without a sign-in Google account search have no google ai because google ai.

google ai automatically not showing in incognito mode google chrome

you can also use Google Chrome incognito mode for search without an account and your signed-in data is available at the same time in non-incognito mode windows.

Method 2: Turn off in Google Lab settings ( outside of the US )

You can turn off Google AI by visiting the Google Lab Experiment settings page. It only works n non-US countries where Google AI is experimental and users have the option to on and off manually,

goto lab.google.com, or click the flask icon in google chrome top right corner. On a mobile device open the google app and click on the top left fask icon. here are screenshots.

fask icon in google search home page located in top right corner

In the ai overview option click on the turn-off toggle to turn it off on both desktop and mobile devices.

google ai turn off toggle showing in google ai experiment page

Note that when Google makes ai overview default in the country outside the US then you may still see AI in search results.

Method 3: Use a web filter to block Google AI overview 

You can use google web filter in search results to remove the new google ai overview and see old Google search results with AI snapshots.

simply search anything in Google and click on more in the top navigation bar of Google search in search result page.

web option in google search result page to turn off google ai

then click on the web in the drop-down list and that is it,

more option in google search where web option located

now you have got rid of Google AI overview in the search result. But you need to set a web filter whenever you relaunch the browser from the start.

Why turn off Google AI overview

In recent days google ai gone with lots of controversies because of its inaccurate answers to queries. Google is giving people Google gives people misleading incorrect and sometimes dangerous answers to searchers.

Although Google took responsibility for removing incorrect answers it was not enough because Google has billions of queries each day and manually removing inaccurate answers is not possible at a large scale.

But it is important to not use Google AI for now because of these known issues, and wait until Google refines and improves it over time. In the meantime use the above given ways to stop Google AI in your search results.

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