Google AI Overviews

How to hide Google
AI Overviews

Google doesn't offer a setting to turn off AI Overviews. You can click the Web tab on every search, change your default search engine, or let a free extension remove the AI box for you - on Google and on Bing.

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Every method that works

Four ways to get rid of AI Overviews

From built-in and manual to fully automatic. The first three are free and need nothing installed.

Built in

Click the Web tab

Under the search box, choose Web (it may sit under More). You get plain links with no AI Overview.

  • Works anywhere, nothing to install
  • You have to click it on every search
  • Images, news and other panels disappear too
Chrome setting

Make Web results your default

Chrome Settings > Search engine > Manage search engines and site search. Next to Site search click Add, use the URL https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14, then choose Make default from its menu.

  • Every address-bar search opens Web results
  • Only on that browser profile
  • You lose the regular All results layout
Workarounds

Query tricks

Tricks like adding "-ai" to a search have circulated. They change what you searched for and tend to stop working when Google adjusts the page.

  • Free and instant
  • Unreliable over time
  • Do nothing for AI Mode or Bing
Automatic

Install PureFeed

Keeps Google's normal All results and removes just the AI parts, on every search, on Google and Bing.

  • AI Overview box and AI Mode button hidden
  • Bing Copilot answers hidden
  • Free and unlimited, runs inside the page

What PureFeed removes

Only the AI parts. Your results stay.

PureFeed takes out the generated answers and leaves the links, images, maps and knowledge panels people actually use.

On Google

  • AI Overviews above the results
  • The AI Mode button and tab
  • Optional (Pro): Web-only results on every search
  • Optional (Pro): pre-ChatGPT results only

On Bing

  • The generative answer at the top of results
  • Copilot answer boxes
  • The Copilot tab

Why people switch them off

Get to the page a person wrote

AI Overviews sit above the first result and push links down the page. They summarise sources without showing you who wrote what, and when they get something wrong they get it wrong in a confident voice at the top of the screen.

If you would rather read the recipe, the forum thread or the documentation yourself, removing the AI box puts that first again. PureFeed does it without changing how Google ranks anything - it only hides the generated parts in your browser.

The same extension also cleans your feeds: likely AI-written posts, ragebait and negativity on LinkedIn, Reddit, X, YouTube and Pinterest fold away with a reason you can see.

Hide AI Overviews on every search

Free, unlimited, and nothing about your searches leaves your browser. Works on Google and Bing from the moment you install.

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FAQ

Common questions

Can you turn off Google AI Overviews permanently?
Not with a Google setting - there is no switch for it. You can click the Web tab on each search, make a custom search engine that always opens Web results, or install an extension like PureFeed that removes the AI Overview box from normal results automatically.
Does PureFeed hide Google AI Mode too?
Yes. PureFeed hides the AI Overview box and the AI Mode button and tab, so the first thing on the page is a normal result. Everything else on the results page stays as it was.
Does it hide Bing Copilot answers?
Yes. On Bing, PureFeed hides the generative answer at the top of results, Copilot answer boxes and the Copilot tab.
Is hiding AI Overviews free?
Yes, and unlimited. Hiding AI answer boxes in Google and Bing is part of the free plan with no daily cap.
Are my searches sent to PureFeed?
No. AI answer boxes are removed by rules that run inside the page in your browser. Your search terms and results are not sent to PureFeed or anyone else.
Does it work if my Google is in another language?
Yes. PureFeed recognises the AI Overview and AI Mode labels in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Hindi Google interfaces.
Can I make every search Web-only or pre-ChatGPT?
Yes, with Pro. Web-only mode opens the Web tab on every search, and pre-ChatGPT mode limits results to pages published before late 2022. Both are switches you can turn off any time.

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