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Comment Re:Has anyone used this on purpose? (Score 1) 38

I wish I had the option to disable this

I asked Gemini for you, but it's a little ironic that you need other people to figure these things out for you:

Tired of Google's AI Overviews cluttering your search results? While there's no official "off" switch, you can force Google to serve you plain web results by creating a custom search engine in Chrome. This effectively brings back the classic search experience.

Here’s the step-by-step:

1. Go to Chrome Settings > Search engine > Manage search engines and site search.

2. Under "Site search," click the "Add" button.

3. In the dialog box, enter the following:

  • Name: Google (Web)
  • Shortcut: :g
  • URL with %s in place of query: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14

4. After adding it, find your new "Google (Web)" entry in the list of site search shortcuts, click the three-dot menu next to it, and select "Make default".

Now, your searches from the address bar will default to the "Web" filter, bypassing the AI-generated answers. The key is the "udm=14" parameter in the URL, which tells Google to show only web results.

Comment Re:LLMs predict (Score 1) 238

We have desires and interests that arise naturally without anyone intending/predicting them

No we don't, your desires and interests are based on brain activity *before* you have them and science has known this for 40+ years. I know it's not fun to recognize it, but human cognition is just as deterministic as the rest of the universe.

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