Can I turn off AI Overviews permanently?

No, there is no official option. The closest thing is setting Google with udm=14 as your default search engine: every search from the address bar arrives without the summary.

Why can't I find the option to disable it?

Because there is none. While AI Overviews were an experiment they could be switched off in Search Labs; since they became part of Search the switch is gone.

Does the Web filter change the results?

The organic links are the same. AI Overviews and boxes like images, videos, news and maps disappear: what is left is a list of links, like Search a few years ago.

Is AI Mode turned off the same way?

AI Mode is a separate tab: it opens only if you pick it. The Web filter and udm=14 remove AI Overviews, which instead appear automatically above the results.

Will blocking AI Overviews on my site cost me traffic?

Often yes: with nosnippet you lose the citation in the summary and the description in regular results, and pages without a description get fewer clicks. Measure the traffic it brings before blocking it.

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How to turn off Google AI Overviews

Google has no switch to turn off AI Overviews: the AI-generated summary is part of Search and cannot be disabled from your account settings. You can still avoid it reliably, with the Web filter or a default search engine that skips it. This guide covers the four methods that work for searchers, what site owners can do and the tricks that do not help.

TL;DR

As a user you cannot disable AI Overviews, but you can stop seeing them: use the Web filter under the search bar, or set Google's address with the udm=14 parameter as your default search engine, which always opens plain links. As a site owner you can keep your text out of the summary with nosnippet or data-nosnippet, but you also lose regular snippets.

Four ways to stop seeing AI Overviews

From quickest to most durable. None turns the summary off for good, but the last two remove it from every search.

1. Use the Web filter
After a search, tap Web among the filters under the search bar (sometimes under More). Google shows links only, without AI Overviews and without image and news boxes.
2. Add udm=14 to the address
The Web filter maps to the udm=14 parameter: an address like google.com/search?q=word&udm=14 opens results without the summary. You can save it as a bookmark.
3. Make it your default search engine
In Chrome: Settings, Search engine, Manage search engines, Add, with the URL https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14, then Make default. From then on every search from the address bar comes without AI Overviews. Edge and Firefox allow the same.
4. On a phone, use the browser
The Google app has no option. In the phone browser the Web filter and the udm=14 search engine work as on a computer.

If you run a site: keeping your text out of the summary

The same controls as snippets apply to AI Overviews. Think about what you give up first: they also limit how the page appears in regular results.

nosnippet

Robots meta tag that stops Google from using the page text in snippets and AI Overviews. The page stays indexed but shows no description in results.

data-nosnippet

HTML attribute that excludes only parts of a page, for example a reserved price or legal text, leaving the rest citable.

max-snippet

Caps the characters Google may reuse. A low value limits how much of your text reaches the summary, and also your chance of being cited as a source.

What you give up

A site kept out of the summary is not among its cited sources, often the most visible links on the page. For most sites the opposite pays off: getting cited.

Tricks that do not work

Plenty of advice promises to switch AI Overviews off. These do not do what they claim.

Search Labs

AI Overviews started as a Search Labs experiment, but they are now part of Search: turning off Labs experiments does not remove them.

Google-Extended in robots.txt

Blocks use of your content for training Gemini, but has no effect on AI Overviews, which depend on Googlebot.

Adding -ai to the search

It sometimes hides the summary, but it also excludes pages containing the word ai and changes the results. It is not a setting and it is not stable.

Extensions that hide it

They remove it from the page, they do not disable it: Google still generates it. And the extension has to read every search you make, so choose whom you trust.

FAQ

Can I turn off AI Overviews permanently?: No, there is no official option. The closest thing is setting Google with udm=14 as your default search engine: every search from the address bar arrives without the summary.
Why can't I find the option to disable it?: Because there is none. While AI Overviews were an experiment they could be switched off in Search Labs; since they became part of Search the switch is gone.
Does the Web filter change the results?: The organic links are the same. AI Overviews and boxes like images, videos, news and maps disappear: what is left is a list of links, like Search a few years ago.
Is AI Mode turned off the same way?: AI Mode is a separate tab: it opens only if you pick it. The Web filter and udm=14 remove AI Overviews, which instead appear automatically above the results.
Will blocking AI Overviews on my site cost me traffic?: Often yes: with nosnippet you lose the citation in the summary and the description in regular results, and pages without a description get fewer clicks. Measure the traffic it brings before blocking it.