I finally figured out how to turn off Google's AI Overviews and search is actually useful again

Google's AI Overviews appear on nearly every search now, generating AI-powered answers directly on the results page. While ...

How to add DuckDuckGo to a Google Chrome browser to get a privacy-focused default search engine

You can add DuckDuckGo to Google Chrome as an extension to make it your default search engine and begin searching the web with greater privacy.
PC World

TL;DR: Google is adding AI web page summaries to Chrome

Google is bringing one element of its AI-powered “Search Generative Experience” (SGE) to Google Chrome, following in the footsteps of Microsoft and its migration of Bing Chat into Edge and mainstream ...
9to5google

Google ‘Web Guide’ lab uses AI to organize the Search results page

Beyond AI Overviews and AI Mode, Google is working on “Web Guide” to better organize Search results into categories with additional context and insights. Simply, “Web Guide groups web links in helpful ...
TechCrunch

Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search

Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries, and will add links to relevant web pages for some of those summaries as well.