Google has fulfilled its ‘threat’, and has implemented the greatest change in history in its star product, the web search. In fact, many when we talk about ‘Google’ we still think about the search engine, although the company has expanded much further, with all kinds of products, both ‘software’ and ‘hardware’. That has not prevented the directive from approved one of the most controversial novelties that are remembered, the summaries with Google.
From now on, when we do a search on Google, We will no longer see a list of web pages results With the information we are looking for, but a summary generated by the call created with AI (ai overViews); This summary will occupy most of the screen, eliminating the need to enter web pages to read what we wanted, something that Google is drove by stating that their summaries “are more useful.”
Actually, the view created with AI is not exactly new, and it has been available for almost a year in the United States; The novelty is that it is now also available in European user accounts, both in English and Spanish. And in this case, the delay has been beneficial, because it has served to realize the poor reception that this function has had among the first users; Not only because of the bad results and the probable impact on visits to web pages, blogs and media, but also for the enormous number of people who have sought a way to disable the results with Google.
The good news is that Google has not thrown its best product to bet on AI; The traditional search with a list of results is still availableit’s just that now it will not be shown by default when we do a search that Google determines that “it may be more useful” if summarized with AI. But the normal search is still accessible, through the web tab.
Therefore, if we do a search on Google and we are shown the view created with AI, All we have to do is click on the web And we will see the usual results. Of course, this is a nuisance more than many users do not need; And again, the good news is that there are already methods to force our browser that always uses the ‘always’ Google.
The simplest way is installing an extension. There is already a variety of extensions whose main function is to hide the summaries with Google. For example, Hide Google AI Overviews is available for both Chrome as for Firefox and related browsers, and is one of the best; It is very simple and does just what it promises, remove the results based on AI and show the search as it was before. In addition, it is open source, which always gives some more security against possible malicious extensions.
Although an extension is the simplest solution, it may not be the most optimal. Remember that Google has a history of Change Chrome rules to eliminate extensions which considers ‘harmful’, or that they can play against them, such as advertisement blockers or tracking protection.
Therefore, there are people who have opted for another method to recover the search as always, more complicated but that does not require any installation. It consists of basically, redirect the searches we make to the Google websiteso that only the results list is displayed.
Creating a search without ia on Google Chrome
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To do this, in Chrome we have to go into configuration and the search engine section. Here, click on ‘Manage search engines and searches on the site’, and click on ‘Add’ in the section ‘Searches on the site’. A menu will open with three options, which we have to fill in as follows:
- Name: Google without ia (or the one we prefer)
- Shortcut: @Web (or the one we prefer)
- URL with %s at the place of consultation: {Google: Baseurl} Search? Q =%S & udm = 14
We only have to do this new search engine as predetermined; From now on, all the searches we make in Chrome will be done directly in the Google website.
