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<\/a><\/p>\nUnpin Gemini – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n
If you want to do more than just hide Gemini, navigate to chrome:\/\/settings\/ai\/gemini. If you unpinned Gemini, you\u2019ll see that \u201cShow Gemini at the top of the browser\u201d has been set to off. If not, toggle it off. Now, turn all the other switches off, including \u201cShow Gemini in system tray and turn on keyboard shortcut\u201d and \u201cPage content sharing,\u201d which sends content from your tabs to Gemini.<\/p>\n
Disable Gemini toggles in Settings – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n Kill the AI mode button<\/p>\n Google would really, really like you to use AI mode instead of its regular search. This type of search is a chatbot that returns direct answers instead of giving you a list of web resources. Perhaps it\u2019s the future of all search, but if so, it\u2019s a bleak future where publishers and content creators have their work hoovered up and plagiarized by a bot that may or may not give correct information and only occasionally cites sources.<\/p>\n To encourage you to use AI mode, Google has put an \u201cAI mode\u201d button on the right side of the Omnibox (what Chrome calls its address bar). So, when you enter a search query in the box, you can click this button to forgo regular search and send your question directly to AI mode. You can also use it by hitting Tab + Enter after entering your query.<\/p>\n AI Mode button – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy enough to just not click the AI Mode button, but perhaps for some folks, its very presence and the possibility of accidentally activating it is offensive. To disable the AI Mode button, first navigate to chrome:\/\/flags in your browser.<\/p>\n Then search for \u201cai mode.\u201d<\/p>\n Search for ai mode in Chrome flags – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n You should get at least three results. Most importantly, set \u201cAI Mode Omnibox entrypoint\u201d to “Disabled” so the button disappears. I also recommend enabling \u201cAI Entrypoint Disabled on User Input\u201d and disabling \u201cOmnibox Allow AI Mode Matches\u201d so you make sure the AI mode is hidden in other ways.<\/p>\n Disable AI Mode entrypoint, enable AI entrypoint disabled on user input, and disable allow AI Mode matches – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n Now, relaunch your browser.<\/p>\n Disable Help me write<\/p>\n It\u2019s not enough that Google Docs and Gmail both have built-in AI writing features. The Chocolate Factory also wants to help you write content that might go into text-based forms on the web. The Help me write feature activates when you right click on a text field and click \u201cHelp me write,\u201d after which it pops up a menu to have you either start writing or make a request for it to compose a message for you.<\/p>\n Help me write dialog box – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n However, sometimes I have also had the browser pop up a message trying to encourage me to use \u201cHelp me write\u201d while I was typing into a text field, though I have not seen that behavior recently. You can make sure that it does not nag you to use \u201cHelp me write\u201d by navigating to chrome:\/\/settings\/ai\/helpMeWrite and toggling \u201cOffer writing help\u201d to off.<\/p>\n Disable Help me write suggestions – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n Disable AI History Search<\/p>\n On my browser, it was disabled by default, but Google also offers \u201cHistory search, powered by AI,\u201d which allows you to search your browser history, not just by the names of the pages you visited but also by their content. When this feature is enabled, it sends information about your browsing habits and the pages you query to Google.<\/p>\n To make sure that History Search is disabled, navigate to chrome:\/\/settings\/ai\/historySearch and toggle the single option to off.<\/p>\n Disable History search, powered by AI – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n Set your default search engine to show web results<\/p>\n By default, the Chrome Omnibox searches Google and returns results from its main search tab (aka the \u201cAll\u201d tab). The main search tab on Google gives you web results as you would expect, but on many queries, an AI Overview appears on top of the page, forcing you to scroll down just to see actual listings from the Internet.<\/p>\n To purge AI Overviews from your Google search, you have a couple of options. First, you can install an extension called Bye Bye, Google AI<\/a>, which I have personally written and can vouch for. It uses CSS to hide AI Overviews and, if you choose, can also hide Google-sponsored links, images, videos, and \u201cpeople also ask\u201d boxes.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t want to install an extension, you can configure your Chrome browser to search Google\u2019s \u201cWeb\u201d tab, which only shows results from the web, skipping AI Overviews as well as images, videos, and answer boxes. To set Chrome to search the web tab from the Omnibox, start by navigating to chrome:\/\/settings\/searchEngines.<\/p>\n Click the Add button next to Site search.<\/p>\n Click the add button next to Site search – Click to enlarge<\/p>\n A dialog box appears. Fill in the fields as follows and then click the Add button.<\/p>\n Name: Google (Web Only)<\/p>\n Shortcut: google.com<\/p>\n URL: {google:baseURL}\/search?udm=14&q=%s<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n