If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from bad sources, there is some good news. It turns out that if you include any expletives in your search query, Google will not return an AI Overview, as they are called, at the top of the results page.

One of the hallmarks of the early days of 2025 is this rapid-fire news coming from the AI industry. Models are evolving, week after week. Companies are throwing enormous amounts of money at everything from hardware to specialized use cases. Some of the fruits of this labor are now coming out as consumer technology, too.

You can append &udm=14 to your search URL that removes AI Overviews and Web snippets. You can also go here, and it will automatically do it for you. A more SFW addition is to put a minus sign at the end of your search with any set of words, though most recommend using "-ai" (sans the quotes).

When I was requested to use Google Chrome for a virtual interview, I decided to try out Bluedot, Chrome's artificial intelligence-powered AI meeting recorder and note taker, in hopes of getting some help along the way.

Google has quietly announced Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, a flagship model, in a changelog for the company's Gemini chatbot app.

Google announced Thursday that the Gemini app is getting its Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model. The upgraded model “delivers fast responses and stronger performance across a number of key benchmarks, providing everyday help with tasks like brainstorming, learning or writing,” the company said in a post.

More recently, some Google users have noticed that appending the string "-ai" to a search (without quotes) seems to also turn off AI Overviews in the results. That method has worked in Ars' testing, as has appending practically any other text string after a minus sign at the end of a search, for some reason.

For people who hate making mundane phone calls, Google has an AI solution. On Thursday, the tech giant announced "Ask for me," an experiment in its Search Labs testing ground for Google Search. The feature uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf and ask about pricing and availability.

Google is trying out a new tool that lets AI call businesses to ask questions for you. The feature, called Ask for Me, collects information about the pricing and availability of a service, but it’s only available for nail salons and auto shops for now.

Google is testing out a new tool that allows artificial intelligence to make calls to businesses to ask questions for you. “Ask for Me” is a feature that will get information on details such as pricing and service availability. However, for now, it’s only available for nail salons and auto shops, Google product lead Rose Yao said in a post on X.

Google's AI-powered NotebookLM is a free, experimental AI notebook designed to be part note-taker, part collaborator, part data collector, and part librarian. It brings together all the text, notes, documents, and other research materials you need in one place.