How to Revert Google Search Back to Normal
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
If "normal" means a page of links, Search Cleaner gets you most of the way. It hides the AI Overview on google.com search pages from the start, and you can add switches for ads, shopping, videos and "People also ask". It's a Chrome extension, so there's nothing to change in your Google account. Google's own "Web" filter, under the search box or in its More menu, also shows plain links with no AI Overview.
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