How to remove AI overviews from Google

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Jun 27, 2026

In the last couple of months, Google has been aggressively promoting their AI Overview feature, with some, shall we say, “interesting” results:

You can avoid these AI overviews by creating a custom search engine in your browser. A custom search engine can disable or circumvent the Google AI overview.

Step 1: Open your browser search settings

Firefox

Copy and paste “about:preferences#search” into the browser bar.

Chrome

Copy and paste “chrome://settings/searchEngines” into the browser bar.

Step 2: Create a custom search engine

Firefox

Hit the “Add” button. It will bring up a menu that looks like this:

You can call the search engine whatever you want. I use “Google (No AI).”

For the URL you have two options:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&client=firefox-b-d&udm=14

This will make your search default to the “Web” option on Google. You will only see webpage results (this also avoids things like the shopping overview). You can see the usual search results by switching to the “All” tab in your search results:
wow, thanks Google, very helpful
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+-ai&client=firefox-b-d

This appends the “-ai” option to your search, which disables the AI overview. You will still see things like the shopping overview. If you really wanted to see the AI overview, you just need to remove the “-ai” options from your search.

Chrome

Hit the “Add” button. It will bring up a menu that looks like this:

The name and shortcut are not important; they can be whatever you want.

As with Firefox, you have two options for the URL:

{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:language}{google:prefetchSource}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}

This option will make your search default to the “Web” option on Google. You will only see webpage results (this also avoids things like the shopping overview).

{google:baseURL}search?q=%s+-ai&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:language}{google:prefetchSource}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}

This option appends the “-ai” option to your search, which disables the AI overview.