Eliminate AI ends in Google Search with this Chrome extension

Google appears to be all-in on its “AI” search outcomes, to the detriment of the online at giant and no small quantity of customers. It appears to be the top results of years of diminishing high quality for search outcomes, and a search web page that’s an increasing number of crowded by adverts and different junk meant to maintain you from… properly, what you’re truly trying to find. If you’d like the “previous” Google again, there’s an extension which may assist.

“Bye Bye, Google AI” is an extension for Chrome and different Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Courageous, Vivaldi, and so forth.) that makes me begin buzzing a sure Don McLean tune. It does precisely what you suppose it does, stripping out the AI Overviews panel from the highest of virtually all present Google searches. It’s a reasonably fundamental CSS adjustment, and it will probably do a couple of different issues too, like eliminate video outcomes, dialogue blocks, the “Individuals Additionally Ask” module, and sponsored sections. A few of it really works at eradicating the additional stuff, a few of it doesn’t.

Right here’s a take a look at a demo Google search earlier than and after the extension is utilized, in a logged-out mode:

This extension was noticed by GHacks and it’s not the primary one which eliminates Google’s intrusive AI slop. However with over 60,000 customers and a 4.5-star score, it appears to be doing very properly. As at all times, watch out of third-party extensions (even these on the official Chrome Net Retailer, that are nominally scanned and accredited by Google). The extension can at all times change with a brand new proprietor or launch a sneaky replace.

Or you would simply swap to a different search engine from an organization that hasn’t primarily admitted that being evil isn’t such a nasty factor in any case. Alternately, you would go all-in on AI in search and within the browser.