Best Way to Disable Google AI for Academic Researchers
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
For research you want to land on the source, not a summary of it. Search Cleaner hides Google's AI Overview on google.com search pages, so the first thing you see is the list of links. It doesn't change which links Google returns, so judging sources is still up to you. For academic work, Google Scholar is the better starting point anyway: it searches journals, theses and repositories and doesn't show AI Overviews.
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