Trying to turn off Google AI Overviews in Search? GOOD LUCK! (And yes,
I'm upset.)
I want to turn off the misleading, useless, and potentially dangerous
AI Overviews that #Google is now stuffing down our throats at the top
of (apparently) most search results. They are frequently simplistic or
just plain wrong, and often so voluminous that you need to scroll way
down to find the sites where #Google is lifting the data from (who
were offering correct answers before Google AI mangled them), while
crushing those sites by drastically reducing user click throughs.
Yeah, great for Google, a disaster for the rest of the Internet. How
far Google has fallen. Follow the money!
I want to turn off those overviews on all devices. There is a page in
the Google Search Help center that claims to provide a rather
convoluted procedure to do this. So far, at least on my Desktop, I
have been unable to make this work. I can't even locate the claimed
option. Perhaps that's the whole idea.
If you have found a way to disable Google's Search Generative
Experience AI overviews in search, please let me know and I'll pass
this along to the MANY people who have contacted me trying to do this.
As it stands, for the first time in decades, this garbage may push me
away from Google Search. Whether I can find a search engine (don't
bother replying about them; I know which ones exist) that isn't going
down the "AI disinformation and suck Internet sites dry route" is a
different question entirely.
And if it sounds like I'm REALLY upset with Google about what they're
doing, yeah, you're right. -L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
[email protected] (https://www.vortex.com/lauren)
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Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org
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Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility
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