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Google has spent the last few years slowly transforming Search into something very different from the simple blue-links experience most people grew up with. First came AI Overviews. Then AI Mode. And now the search giant is experimenting with even more AI-heavy interfaces that try to answer questions before you even click a website. For some users, that sounds useful. For others, it feels exhausting. Sometimes you just want a normal search result instead of an AI-generated paragraph confidently explaining something that may or may not even be correct. The problem is, Google doesn’t really want you turning these features off. The company describes AI Overviews as a “core Google Search feature,” meaning there is currently no official setting to completely disable them. Still, a few workarounds can help reduce how often Google’s AI gets in your face.