AI-generated summaries are popping up at the top of your Google searches, whether you asked for them or not. No longer an opt-in Google Labs experimental feature, these brief snippets pull together answers from across the web to answer questions that would otherwise require several searches. Still, not everyone is a fan. They’re often blatantly wrong, and require obscene amounts of resources, including potable drinking water. While they can be an excellent jump-off point into research, they can also be incredibly annoying.
Dodging Google’s AI Overviews isn’t as simple as clicking a button, but there are a few tricks that can help. For those carrying a torch for the good ol’ days of classic blue links, here’s how to do it.