Google launched an&nbsp, AI Overviews function in its search results a little over a year ago, shaking up the search engine environment.

These AI reports synthesize real-language responses to search queries based on information from places in Google’s search results. AI Overviews can often be helpful, but the software has also been known to give wildly inaccurate answers or totally fill in gaps. &nbsp,

The major problem for me with Google’s AI Overviews is that I need to fact-check all knowledge, so I need to learn the primary solutions anyway. I’d much rather have a thorough listing of relevant web links than a frank conclusion that isn’t guaranteed to be 100 % correct. &nbsp,

If, like me, you find yourself wishing for the Google queries of ancient where you’d face a list of references, I have good news. When Google released the AI Overview search screen called” Web,” which simply provides links to websites in results. It’s simple to change the new Web sensor to your default Google search result after a few minutes of practice.

By making a quick change to your browser settings, you may ensure you get just links to websites in your Google search results. We’ll demonstrate how to use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Edge.

What does Google Search Web Filter mean?

Google’s fresh Web screen is similar to its frames for results like News, Images, Videos or Shopping. Without AI reports, videos, or information modules like” Major Tales” or” People Often Ask,” your search results will only return text-based links when the Web filter is selected.

In addition to other frames like News, Images, and Videos, the new screen may look below the search box on the Google Search results section. You’ll generally have to press the three-dot” More” menus to see it as an alternative.

Clicking the Web filtering website will give you Google Search results composed wholly of text-based connections, with no solutions, Iot or anything else. Under the search query box, the word” Web” will now be highlighted and noted in blue.

We did not find any sponsored search results or various advertisements in our first tests of Google’s Web filter, but a Google spokeswoman claims that the filter will also return ads for some search queries. We were able to discover search advertising for a few specific questions after testing more search conditions with the Google Web screen.

How do I find Google Web sensor results for computer bar searches?

Depending on your computer, the Google Web filtering results appear in your tackle bar searches very quickly. You’ll need to create a unique blog search path in your website, set it with a term, and then change it to your definition for all searches. &nbsp,

The crucial URL to keep in mind is https ://www.google .com/search ?q= %s&amp ,udm=14. The “udm=14″ tag limits your results to the new Web filter, and the” %s” represents your search query.

Here’s how to add the necessary custom site search for Google’s Web filter in the four most popular web desktop browsers– Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.

Use the website & udm=14, which Ernie Smith of Tedium built if you don’t want to bother with the browser settings. It provides Google Search with a front-end with the necessary Web filter parameter automatically included. &nbsp,

Google Chrome

Click on the three-dot menu in the upper-right corner next to your Google account profile to open a Google Chrome browser window. Click Settings near the bottom of that menu. To access your Chrome settings, you can also enter chrome: //settings in the address bar of the browser.

In the middle of the browser window, click” Manage search engines and site search,” and then select” Search engine from the left-hand column.” Next, scroll down to” Site search” and click the blue Add button.

Create a name for the new search shortcut and a keyword for triggering it in the resultant pop-up window. We chose” Old Google” and” Og.” For the last field– “URL with %s in place of query”– enter that URL we mentioned above: https ://www.google .com/search ?q= %s&amp ,udm=14. then click the green Add button.

Now, Google’s Web filter will return results when you use the search term “og” + your search term to search your address bar.

If you’d like to make it your default search option, click the three-dot menu next to your new site search and select” Make default”. All of your address-bar searches will use the Web filter after you make the new search shortcut your default search; no keywords are required.

Microsoft Edge

Since the Windows browser uses the Chromium codebase, the steps for adding a Google Search Web filter shortcut are similar to those in Google Chrome. Navigate into Settings by clicking the three-dot menu in the upper-right corner, then select Privacy, search, and services. &nbsp,

Select the Address bar and search, then Manage search engines, at the bottom of the next screen. Alternatively, you can navigate directly to that screen by entering edge: //settings/searchEngines in your Edge address bar.

Create your new site search shortcut by clicking the Add button. The URL template is the string that triggers the Google Search Web filter: https ://www.google .com/search ?q= %s&amp ,udm=14.&nbsp, the Shortcut is the term that triggers that specific site search ( I used “og” ), and the URL is your name for the shortcut ( I used” Old Google ).

Return to the address bar and search settings page and select the drop-down menu next to the Search engine chosen in the address bar to change the default search for that new Google URL. Select your new custom site search and your address bar searches will default to the Google Search Web filter.

Mozilla Firefox

When setting up search shortcuts, Firefox operates a little differently. Instead of using the search settings, you’ll create a bookmark with a keyword shortcut, then use that keyword in the address bar to trigger the Web filter results for Google Search. Unfortunately, Firefox forbids the addition of search engines to its desktop version.

Select Manage Bookmarks from the Firefox drop-down menu. On the following screen, right-click on the folder in your Bookmarks where you’d like to place the shortcut, then select” Add Bookmark”. It doesn’t matter where the bookmark lives because you’ll be triggering it from the address bar.

Enter a Name ( for example,” Old Google” ), the URL https ://www.google .com/search ?q= %s&amp ,udm=14, and a Keyword ( such as “og” ) into the following pop-up window to save the search filter as a bookmark. Hit the” Save” button, and the Google Web filter results will be available by entering your keyword before any address-bar searches.

Apple Safari

Custom site shortcuts are not made available by default in Safari. The only way to add the Google Web filter search was to download the free Safari extension Smart Keyword Search, which enables site search shortcuts.

After installing Smart Keyword Search, the first thing you’ll need to do is enable it to adjust your Google search results. Select Smart Keyword Search from the list of options in Settings, click Extensions at the top of the window, and then click the “Edit Websites” button. Click the drop-down menu next to google .com on the next page and choose” Allow.”

Close the Settings window and click the Smart Keyword Search icon that appears next to the Safari address bar. You’ll see a pop-up window with the various “rules” the extension uses to modify searches. To begin a new rule, click the” compose” button and enter a name ( such as. For the Web filter search shortcut, enter the prefix “old Google,” ( for instance, “og” ), and a well-known URL.

You’ll need to enter a slightly different URL: https ://google .com/search ?q=search&amp ,utm=14. Smart Keyword Search uses the variable” search” rather than” %s” to indicate a search query. Hit the” submit” button. Google’s Web filter restricts the results you can now get by typing “og” ( or your chosen prefix ) before any searches you can do in your address bar.

How to limit your Google Web searches to “verbatim” results

You can further customize your searches on Google so that the search engine only returns results based on the exact terms that you use– not synonyms or related terms. The “verbatim” option was created in 2011 and is typically found under the” Tools” link in the top-most Google searches.

Add the attribute” &amp, tbs=li: 1″ to the end of your custom search URL: https ://www.google .com/search ?q= %s&amp ,udm=14&amp, tbs=li:1″ to add a “verbatim” restriction to your Web filter shortcut.

Any searches that you make using that new URL will now only return text-based web links for your exact search queries.

Correction: Correction, July 2, 2024: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that Google Web filter results did not display advertisements. We were able to demonstrate after further testing that search ads can appear on Google Search Web filter results.