Mignon FogartyGoogle's AI Overview is so bad! Pat just referred to it as "the fifth dentist." 😂
You can prevent the AI Overview from showing up in your search results by adding "-AI" to your search.
I need to try harder to remember to do that.
Mats Holberg 🇺🇦It's amazing to me that the term literally used to describe that incredibly common AI occurrence -- hallucination -- isn't enough, in and of itself, to mitigate this type of deployment. In a world where 'doing my own research' which means the opposite of critical analysis.
Joseph Lamoree@grammargirl Maybe I’ll just make a macro that always injects ’-AI’ whenever I hit the enter key and the active application is a web browser.
😄
I’m just kidding… I’d never use Google for search.
ProjektionsytaYou can also use this instead of Google:
https://udm14.com/
It renders a Google search result, without AI bells and whistles.
Joe Ortiz@projektionsyta @grammargirl I'm afraid to report that workaround is going away soon.
From it's creator @ernie:
https://tedium.co/2025/03/14/udm14-search-hack-google-ai-testing/
Ernie Smith@joeo10 @projektionsyta @grammargirl *could* … I don’t have hard evidence. Hold out hope that Google leaves it alone.
BRS@grammargirl and they said the internet was better than the libraries card catalogs. 😂😂😂
Axomamma@grammargirl It can be hard when you're pasting a word or term into the search bar, because - at least with my tablet or phone - once the text is pasted in, it just automatically searches. I've taken to typing "fuck -ai" into the search bar, and then pasting my copied text onto the word "fuck."
I wish there were an extension that would automatically exclude AI results but we're not there yet.
Nonya Bidniss 
@grammargirl For a long time I was using #DDG and when they finally added AI I could set preferences to not show AI but every time it updated the AI would come back. So I dumped DDG. Now I use #Startpage as my default search and...there's just no AI at all.
Ted LuddThanks for the tip! I’m getting sick of DDG’s on by default AI, too.
@grammargirl May I recommend a paid search engine? Kagi is incredible. I have to constantly look things up for work and it has supplanted google in everything I do.
Pinky@grammargirl honestly, ai in search results seems like the best use case especially given the number of ads in search results. I don't need it to read or write, but filtering and sorting is certainly nice. As long as it cites sources!😆
NAB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶
@grammargirl Also, you can use noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com.
Hud@grammargirl Consider using DuckDuckGo as your search engine. No ads, no trackers, just results.
Michael Galassi@grammargirl
Don't google it, quack it, or as some say duck it. I swore off Google years ago and only go there accidentally when I install a new system with the wrong search engine default.
Don't google it, quack it, or as some say duck it. I swore off Google years ago and only go there accidentally when I install a new system with the wrong search engine default.