How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews—and reclaim search sanity

We’ve got two competing realities when it comes to tracking down info online these days: Getting answers has never been easier, between all the artificial intelligence chatbots in front of us and the unavoidable smearing of “AI Overview” answers at the top of regular Google search results. Getting accurate information has never been more challenging—thanks to the fact that all that AI-generated gobbledygook is flat-out wrong a shockingly high amount of the time (anywhere from 10% on the lower end to 50% and up, when it comes to more niche and specialized info). To use some highly technical ter