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Serious answer: add -nword (you know which one) to the query. A minus before that word means it will display results without it, so it won't affect your search results unless you're looking for rap lyrics. AI overviews are hard disabled if it detects a politically incorrect word in the query (gemini, google's AI agent is the most sensitive one), and this one is the most known, used and easy to type fast one.

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spierdalacz said in comment #2617981:

Serious answer: add -nword (you know which one) to the query. A minus before that word means it will display results without it, so it won't affect your search results unless you're looking for rap lyrics. AI overviews are hard disabled if it detects a politically incorrect word in the query (gemini, google's AI agent is the most sensitive one), and this one is the most known, used and easy to type fast one.

Genuinely thank you, this has been annoying me more than it should.

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spierdalacz said in comment #2617981:

Serious answer: add -nword (you know which one) to the query.

That absolutely works, but there is a more streamlined way that doesn't involve funny words (until Google removes support for it that is) and that is using the tbs parameter. This parameter handles search filters like specific date ranges (tbs=qdr:d for results in the last day for example) but you can also just pass it a 1 for it to filter nothing, but it will still hide the Gemini AI box. Compare these two searches:

Normal search: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+touhou
TBS=1 search: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+touhou&tbs=1

If you want even less Google stuff in your results you can even choose to enable Web mode. This will disable all dynamic info cards like definitions, maps, product reviews, videos, and other suggestions. This is usually hidden under the More button next to the All / Images / Video / News buttons. But you can also access it directly by adding udm=14 to your search. Compare these searches:

Normal search: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+touhou
TBS=1 search: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+touhou&tbs=1
UDM=14 search: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+touhou&udm=14

Some other operators that can be useful:

Verbatim mode tbs=li:1 to stop Google returning other results you didn't search for with "Including results for ..."
Normal mode: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+towhow
Verbatim mode: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+towhow&tbs=li:1

Geolocation gl=XX to force a specific region for your results
Toyota, US: https://www.google.com/search?q=toyota&gl=us
Toyota, UK: https://www.google.com/search?q=toyota&gl=uk
Toyota, JP: https://www.google.com/search?q=toyota&gl=jp

Combining paremeters

You can stack multiple parameters together with & to further finetune your experience.

This disables all Google stuff and enables verbatim mode.
https://www.google.com/search?q=danbooru&udm=14&tbs=li:1

Make it a search engine

To further automate this, you can change the search engine of your browser and your custom search the default:

1. Go to Search Engine in your settings

Chrome: chrome://settings/searchEngines
Edge: edge://settings/privacy/services/search/searchEngines
Firefox: about:preferences#search
Opera: opera://settings/searchEngines

2. Click Add

3. In the field that asks for a URL, enter your custom search
Place %S where your query goes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
Should look like this

4. (Optional) Set this engine to the default

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