If you don't like how much slower Google search is with AI results, find them useless most of the time, and want to limit the climate damage potential of AI, here’s how to use Google as your primary search engine in Chrome with AI turned off:
- Click this link chrome://settings/searchEngines to go the search engine settings page.
- Click the Add button.
- Enter these values:
- Google (no AI)
- withoutai
- https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+-art1f1c141
- Click Save.
- Find your new no AI search engine in the list and click the ⋮ icon and choose Make default.
So what's this actually doing? The -art1f1c141 tells Google to not include search results that include that (non) word and this has the side effect of suppressing AI results and also certain other instant results. I've chosen an arbitrary string that (as of the time I wrote this) does not appear in any Google or Bing search results. So excluding that string won't affect the search.
Searching for "time in Antarctica" would normally show the time directly, but with the negative clause it won't. To get that result, just remove the -art1f1c141 in the query. To make that a bit easier, edit the Google search engine and change the shortcut to just g. Then to search google without disabling AI just type g and a space.
These same instructions work in Edge except start at edge://settings/searchEngines in step 1.
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