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I found a trick to cleanly disable the Google AI overview: add "&tbs=1" to the search URL. The old search widgets like the dictionary box and featured snippets will be brought back as well. It's just like how Google used to work before all the hype around AI happened.

I believe this works because the `&tbs=` parameter is intended to be used for time-based search filters. If we set the filter to something that's either invalid or captures all possible search results, Google will hide the AI overview but also show the original search contents in full.