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How to Turn off Google AI in Search Results

January 12, 2025 | by Abhishek Tiwari

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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.

Are you looking for ways to turn off Google AI in your search results? It turns out that there is no official way to turn off Google’s AI in its search results, but there are some workarounds that you can use.

Method 1: Use Google search without signing in account

I believe it is important for you to be aware of the fact that Google is making some changes that I feel may not be to your benefit. There may be information on the internet that you cannot access as easily as you once could. You may have to change some of your search habits to avoid this.

As you know, AI plays a large role in Google search. Google AI is the new technology that will be used by Google search. When you type a query into Google, you may be surprised to find that the results do not match up with the exact terms you typed. You may also discover that the search results include snippets or sections of content from your search history. Google uses this information to generate search results that are more relevant to your interests.

Here are some of the changes Google has made, and some workarounds for you to still get the most out of searching for information on the web:

1. Search without an account: This is the easiest and most convenient way to stop Google AI in search results. The other options are more time-consuming. By searching without signing in to Google or your default browser, you can avoid the personalized results that Google AI provides. This method will also help you avoid seeing any ads that are targeted toward you, which can make it easier to find the content you are looking for. In addition to not signing in, using Google Chrome’s incognito mode is another way to ensure you don’t see personalized results.

2. Turn off Google AI in lab settings (non-US countries): For those of you who live outside the US, you can choose to turn off Google AI in Google Lab settings. By default, it is turned on, but you can turn it off using the toggle. Google has made it simple to use.

3. Web filter: You can remove the new Google AI overview and get the old search results by using a web filter. To do this, type whatever you are searching for into Google. Once you see the results, click on “more” in the top navigation bar. Then, select “web” in the dropdown list. However, if you close the browser, you have to do this again.

I hope this information has been helpful, and that you’re able to avoid any unintended consequences from Google’s changes.

Thank you for your time.

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.

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

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.

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

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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