Cursing Your Way to Google Search Results Without AI Summaries
Tired of Google's AI-powered search results leading you astray? It turns out adding expletives to your search query disables the AI-generated summaries. Including curse words prevents Google from displaying its AI Overview at the top of the results, instead providing a standard list of links. While not the first method discovered to bypass Google's AI summaries, this approach is remarkably simple and cathartic. This raises questions about the desirability of these AI summaries; if users consistently seek ways to disable them, does this indicate a lack of demand? While convenient, AI summaries are prone to inaccuracies and may exacerbate the spread of misinformation, mirroring the issues seen with ChatGPT's integration into Siri. Google argues that AI Overviews don't reduce website traffic, a claim disputed by media companies.