cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1371599/google-is-automatically-expanding-ai-overviews-on-some-search-queries-pushing-users-into

This is not good for publishers, not good at all.

Before the change:

After the change:

Source: Search Engine Roundtable.

Google is automatically expanding AI Overviews on some search queries, pushing users into AI mode by default, without requiring the user to click the "Show more" button. Burying search results under
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and now for the solution: https://tenbluelinks.org/

I switched my default search engine to https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

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