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In case anyone finds this useful...it worked for me, at least temporarily.
Instructions based on Elle Logs' video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qKqHymCBM; I also posted a similar thing on red blather.
1) Click on three dots on top right hand corner of screen
2) Click "Settings" near bottom of menu
3) Search "manage search settings and sight search"
4) Once there, scroll to "site search", click on it, and fill in the blanks in the pop-up window; it doesn't matter what the first 2 entries are, but the first functions as a name so you can put in something like "non-ai search"
5) *Important*: fill in the third blank with https://google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
6) Click on three dots next to your new entry in "site search" (e.g., "non-ai search" if you called it that) and select "Make default"
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Reasons I did that:
1) My father recommends Duck Duck Go instead of Google anyway, but I'm in a bit of a rut where I find changes challenging. One thing at a time.
2) The AI overview gave me wrong information twice: first, that a fictional town in an L. M. Montgomery book was a real place; second, that the Berlin Wall came down in 1990 instead of 1989.
To be fair, it'd be easy for a summarizing tool to mix this up: it was in 1989 that the wall itself was torn down, but this was a step towards the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990.
3) AI tools are generally energy-intensive and a drain on the environment. Sometimes it's worth using that energy, IMO, when pattern-detecting programs can do useful things for medicine, linguistics, and so on...but to me, it's not worth wasting on searches.
(also, hello and Happy New Year!)
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