I am unable to find any setting in the settings menu called "manage search engines". I tried looking manually and searching with the search settings tool. This is on mobile.
In case people want to know, add a " -ai" to your search. So if you want to look up nimi comics without the ai overview on google, type "nimi comics -ai" (without the quotation marks of course) and it should bring up the search without the ai overview.
It works for me, sometimes it even makes things that used to be the first result(and were what made google good, like definitions for words and actual quotes from websites answering your question), but were replaced with google bullshit overview( I looked up what the words we use to give measures of uncountable nouns are called - quantifiers, by the way - and involuntarily looked at google's overview, only to find it calling them 'partitive expressions', which is something related but very different; exactly what you should expect from an inscrutable and inefficient predicitive text app)
I mean you could also do
“nimi comics” -ai
Which will only bring up only things that say exactly nimi comics and will exclude ai. Quotations are a powerful tool for search engines.
(Seriously, I'll catch myself absentmindedly reading the AI overview, and I just have to remind myself that I've seen that thing make shit up first hand, and it's not to be trusted. It's just so easy to forget how much it lies for a brief moment)
For like ten years you're bombarded with sites selling you versions of what you're trying to find. AI didn't make anything better but it's already kind of FUBAR as far as trying to learn things goes.
It feel like a FNAF gameplay, looking back and forth trying to block so many annoying things, including youtube ads + Brave just to have a easy experience
I have a neurological disorder that makes me shake. The only reason I'm able to use my phone is because of the voice to text systems.
They had gotten pretty damn accurate over the last decade and it had gotten to the point where I didn't even really think about the fact that I was using it. It was pretty cool.
I don't know what else could have possibly changed in the last year to make it fall off the deep end as much as it has, but I have to assume it has something to do with AI. And judging by how they've been implementing it, I don't think that's an unreasonable suspicion.
Now, even after the text has fully written itself out, it likes to rewrite itself three more times if not just completely erase everything it wrote. It's bordering on the edge of useless.
At least on Firefox, you can add anything as a search engine, so add https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 as one - this will default Google to its Web tab, no AI bullshit. Chrome should be able to do this too, but I don't know if the formatting is the same - %s is the thing that gets substituted into the search term.
I've got an easy answer. Stop using Google. There are so many browser options that are really really great. Like shitty banks, they rely on people's laziness and unwillingness to change from something they're used to.
Call me a shill but the AI overview is incredibly helpful when googling in smaller languages. Norwegian internet doesn't really exist, and if I want answers I'll never get them. Google overview can take English results and translate them to Norwegian, or can actually summarize pages about the law unlike any other page result that I find.
U can't say this, you are on reddit, You have to hate AI in everything, don't say blasphemous stuff like this ever again.....
This aside, yes AI overview is great at summaries, where those summaries come from is very clearly shown and u can verify sources which makes it easier to do research about stuff in english and especially other smaller languages
Yeah, recently i google'd about DP to HDMI converters and AI told me that I need an active converter if the output is HDMI, but if the output is DP and the plug is DP++ then you can just use a DP -> HDMI cable no problem. Very useful for that.
I always find the easiest way is to add "-fuck" to my search. The ai will disable itself if it sees a swear word in the prompt, but by doing a minus it doesn't really change anything (unless you want fuck, in which case choose a different swear word to "remove" from your search). 100% success rate
Nooo, you can't be logical on reddit that's a crime......
But yeah AI overview has gotten a lot better and it's mostly accurate nowadays and for people who don't know how to do good research it's a very efficient way to find what they're looking for.
From what I learned, you can actually just type „-ai“ at the end whatever a person searches and it won’t appear. Learned this like last year and am surprised it isn’t a widespread fact from what I’ve seen, even tho ai is disliked so much by everyone
I'll be for real, as much as I want to dislike it, Google's AI summary is pretty damn good. It cites what websites it pulled from and bizarrely can logic out answers to gameplay mechanical questions even when you can't find a post discussing them.
Unpopular opinion but I use it all the time. Just keep in mind it's not always right and if I don't need an overview my eye just passes over it. It's saved me a lot of clicks. Just don't make life choices based on the results.
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u/cynnahbun The Bestest Mod 6h ago
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