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Excluding the AI Summary From Your Google Search

If you’re fed up with seeing the AI summary at the top of your Google search results you have several options. The easiest thing to do is just add -AI to your search. 

Screenshot of the Google search bar. It reads "are tigers legal in BC -AI".

However, if your search includes the term “AI”, this obviously won’t work:

Screenshot of the Google search bar. It reads "excluding the AI summary from your Google search -AI".

In this case you have two options. You can either click on the web tab:

Screenshot of the Google search bar. It reads "excluding the AI summary from your Google search". The Web tab below the search bar is highlighted.

Or you can add profanity to your initial search:

Screenshot of the Google search bar. It reads "excluding the AI summary from your fucking Google search".

(Admittedly this last method may give you results you weren’t expecting.)

Susannah Tredwell

Comments

  1. What does the -ai operator do? Does it just remove results that use the term “ai” (including the AI summary) or does it attempt to filter out all results generated by AI?

  2. Removes all results that use the term “ai” including the AI summary.

    It would be lovely if it attempted to filter out all results generated by AI, but that does not appear to be the case.

  3. Another option is the ‘disenshittification Konami code’, a workaround that apparently filters out the AI-assisted Google results. I haven’t tried it out, but plan to.

    https://udm14.com

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