How to Block AI Text from Search Engines
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
There are two kinds of AI text in search: Google's own AI Overview, and AI-written pages in the results. Patrick Bushe's Search Cleaner handles the first, hiding the AI Overview (and the AI Mode tab, if you want) on google.com search pages. It doesn't detect or hide AI-written websites, and no extension can do that reliably. For those, check who wrote a page, and prefer sites with named authors and sources.
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