Trying to disable Google's AI Overview in Safari using Terminal

[pullman]

Good morning

Has anyone tried setting Google as default search engine in Terminal and then appending a swear word as suggested in this Reddit post?

I realise it's a solution that may not suit everyone but I would find it intriguing to use such a simple workaround.

I've only found an old Stackoverflow post about editing Safari's plist in OS X, but it doesn't seem to apply to macOS. At least I'm not able to find the relevant plist on my installation of Sequoia to test if it might work to add the code that way.

Cheers
Philip

 

[bogdanw]

I don’t think that is possible in Safari. And you don’t need a swear word, just use &udm=14

You can create a QucikAction or a Shortcut. Here is the QuickAction I use to search Google US without AI.

open "https://www.google.com/search?q=$@&hl=en-US&gl=US&udm=14"

 

[MacCheetah3]

It’s not an automated method, but if you append -noai to your search, it will leave out the AI summary.

 

[pullman]

Thank you Bogdan, this is an interesting solution. I'm not so familiar with Quick Actions. Does it run automatically when you search in Safari's address field or do you need to first select google.com?

I don’t think that is possible in Safari. And you don’t need a swear word, just use &udm=14

You can create a QucikAction or a Shortcut. Here is the QuickAction I use to search Google US without AI.

open "https://www.google.com/search?q=$@&hl=en-US&gl=US&udm=14"

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[pullman]

Thank you very much, this is also a very elegant solution. I'm wondering if that could be automated, too, somehow.

It’s not an automated method, but if you append -noai to your search, it will leave out the AI summary.