I'm really curious - how will this affect sites that monetize off of affiliate links and ads? It seems to me that AI summarization and overview will deter, at the minimum reduce, the number of page clicks and traffic to sites that are producing information.
How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
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#32Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a
The future of search is truly here.
These feel like something a satirical tech website would come up with.
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#33Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
#34I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now. It’s increasingly rare that I need to switch to Google.
Duckduckgo is just Bing with location-based ads injected into the bottom of your search results.
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#35Thanks, I appreciate the detailed instructions. Just did all of my browsers to escape the AI. (Which in most cases looked like the first choice just reworded some. OTOH, I'm thinking about clicking that Make Default button on DuckDuckGo and skipping the entire mess.
DDG user here. Definitely worth switching.
Even if DDG doesn't have your exact answer, they have a feature called Bangs! and you can search Google by adding `!g` to your query.
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#36Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a
When searching for "Scarlett Johansson", https://i.imgur.com/fgtjBTj.jpeg Never seen these kinds of weird word combinations.
Looks like what I'd expect a small child's search history to look like
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#37Adding to the litany of bad google ideas from the past 10+ years: - Killing google reader - Pointless UI changes - Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other. - Stadia fiasco - Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lac…
Wall St wants to see them keeping up with the latest tech. That's why Apple put billions into VR and we will hear nothing of it in 12-24 months. Another reason is talent retention/acquisition. AI will be history in 12-24 months when the bubble bursts and we are left with a mountain of cheap GPUs.
Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
#38Adding to the litany of bad google ideas from the past 10+ years: - Killing google reader - Pointless UI changes - Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other. - Stadia fiasco - Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lac…
It's probably because they're chasing after metrics.
Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
#39You can also just add udm=14 to the Url.
Or just use DDG and be done with it.
Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
#40Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a
It is frankly astonishing how poor Gemini continues to be in tasks even suggested answers, Assistant and in part, Google Now covered in the past. Mistral, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all have their unique advantages and I have yet to find one LLM being superior in every task I use them for, but purely for such simple questions that should be in the training data, few are consistently as poor as Google efforts have bee…
I don't know, these screenshots look terrible, but my own experience using Gemini has been nothing short of pleasant and helpful.