How to Turn Off AI Overview Results in Your Google Searches (link to Yahoo article)

[eppur_se_muova]

I just noticed that Google now returns an "AI overview" for each search. I also noticed the very first such search I saw included a statement that was verifiably dead wrong. And I hate the way AI consumes prodigious amounts of energy.

Here's the Yahoo article: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/turn-off-ai-overview-results-170014202.html
It gives examples in Chrome -- I can't seem to find something comparable in Firefox. Need to do a little more poking around to find something that works.

Also worth looking at https://udm14.com/

If anyone knows an easy way to add to Firefox, please let me know. Here it is:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. For Firefox:

Search for the add on udm14 by Donald Hobern and install it. It looks like there are some other umd14 add ons but this is the one I use.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Thanks, that did it! I had tried one of the other extensions and it didn't seem to be working.

After installing the extension, I had to go to Settings and choose the search engine named "umd14". Any new Google searches now omit the AI overview.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Ah right right, I forgot to mention that step.

It takes some getting used to; it's like a time machine back to 2017, but I'm happy to avoid the AI garbage.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. No problem, I had already tried that with the other extension and it didn't show up. So I already knew ...

... I had to do something to "get the browser's attention", so to speak.