Andreas K“How to disable Google's generative AI bulls$it”
It's trivial.
Switch to an alternative search engine.
When the product detoriates so far that it's unusable, the idea is that you should use something better. There are other search engines (like Brave or DuckDuckGo) that are clearly in throwing range of Google or have overtaken Google, with Google getting worse so quickly in the past years.
Frustration grows over Google's AI Overviews feature, how to disable
Since Google enabled its AI-powered search feature, many people have tried and failed to disable the often incorrect AI Overviews feature in regular search results. However, there are ways to turn it off using a new "Web" search mode, which we explain in this article..