How to Search Google Without Getting AI Answers or Summaries

Google has no setting to turn off AI Overviews, but it does have a way to search without them: the Web filter. It shows plain links, the way Google used to, and you can make Chrome use it every time.

Use the Web filter

After you search, look at the row of tabs under the search box (All, Images, News and so on). Click Web; it's sometimes hidden under More. You get a list of website links with no AI Overview, no AI Mode and fewer extra boxes.

The filter is just a setting in the address: udm=14. Any Google search URL with &udm=14 added gives web-only results.

Make it your default in Chrome

1. Open Settings → Search engine → Manage search engines and site search.
2. Next to Site search, click Add.
3. Name it "Google Web", give it a shortcut like gw, and use this URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
4. Click the three dots next to your new entry and choose Make default.

Every search from the address bar now goes straight to web results. Searching from the box on google.com itself still shows AI Overviews.

Other ways to cut the AI

• A browser extension can hide the AI Overview, the AI Mode tab and other sections on regular Google results, including searches made on google.com. Search Cleaner does this, with a switch for each section.
• Other search engines give you more control. DuckDuckGo has a setting to turn off its AI answers, and Kagi only shows AI summaries when you ask for one. See DuckDuckGo vs Kagi vs Brave Search for how they compare.
• Query tricks people share, like adding words to the search, change often and stop working, so they aren't worth relying on.

What you give up

The Web filter also drops some useful extras, such as the weather card, sports scores and the knowledge panel about a person or company. For those searches, switch back to the All tab.

Why people want AI answers off

AI Overviews can get things wrong, sometimes confidently, and they push the sites that wrote the information further down the page. If you'd rather judge sources yourself, plain links are quicker. For more on where the summaries go wrong, see how Google AI Overviews get answers wrong.