Don’t use Google. It’s an advertising company. Why would anyone expect to get actual results from a company whose entire existence depends on you clicking ads.

Fuck Google just as much as AI.

But the fact that this works on Ecosia too is useful. Thanks.

LPT: Don’t use Google.

I've been using noai.duckduckgo.com and it's pretty okay. Fuck Google

LPT: self-host searxng with the traffic going over a VPN using gluetun

How long until that modifier doesn’t work? The “parameter” and -exclude are absolutely worthless, Google will show you exactly what they want you to see, not what you told it you want (or don’t want) to see.

When image searching, Duck Duck Go also has a no AI option on the drop down menus above the search results.

I just use Firefox, install the udm14 plug-in, and never think about it again...

In my experience you can also just put "fuck" at the beginning of your search and not get any AI overview

Kagi allows you to toggle AI result summaries in your settings, alongside a million other things, like down ranking sites that tend to come with slop and removing the vast majority of AI images from image search results (unless you want that of course, because Kagi is designed around user preference, not advertisers)

I just added rules to ublock that hides the AI overview everywhere, not just Google (because I don't use Google anyway)

Per Gemini:

To disable Gemini on an Android device, navigate to your Google Account settings, find Gemini Apps activity, and turn it off. You can also choose to delete your Gemini activity. For Google Workspace users, there may be additional administrative controls to manage Gemini access.