If you\u2019ve searched for something on Google lately, you might\u2019ve noticed a wall of text that appears before the actual search results. This feature, called AI Overviews<\/a>, offers an AI-generated answer to certain queries. But it also pushes your list of links further down the page, which makes it a bit annoying to scroll past when you want to do your own research \u2014 and it will get even more annoying once Google starts stuffing ads into it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But even though Google doesn\u2019t let you disable the feature, there are a few ways around it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n One of the best ways to \u201cturn off\u201d the feature is to reconfigure your browser\u2019s default search engine options. The website tenbluelinks<\/a> offers instructions on how to do this in Chrome on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac as well as in Firefox on Windows and Mac.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The next time you conduct a search, you should no longer see AI Overviews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There are some other simple ways to avoid AI Overviews, too, including with uBlock Origin<\/a>. One Reddit user found<\/a> that you can avoid the feature by downloading the uBlock extension for your browser. You then head to the settings menu, go to the My filters<\/strong> section, paste google.com##.GcKpu<\/strong> into the list, and select Apply changes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And finally, if you just want to avoid AI Overviews occasionally, you can do your search, then select More > Web<\/strong> to get an AI Overviews-less (and ad-less) list of sites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Any of these methods should give you a break from AI search results \u2014 at least until Google rolls out an \u201coff\u201d button.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n