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MacOS Safari - Turn off AI summary in Google Search

Anyone know how to disable the Google AI summary in Safari. I've done it with Firefox by setting up a custom search as default but I can't find any way to do it in Safari.


Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.1

Posted on Nov 13, 2024 2:04 AM

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Posted on Nov 13, 2024 7:54 AM

This is getting daft, so just to be clear:

I want to use Safari and Firefox on Mac (not Brave)

I want to use Google search

I don't want Google AI summaries.

I can achieve this with Firefox.

I'm just asking whether anyone knows how to do it with Safari.


I don't know what Chrome can do that other browsers can't. The AI suggested other browsers not me. Note, however, that the AI summary is a feature of the website, not the browser I suspect that the AI is talking out of its arse.


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Nov 14, 2024 8:11 AM in response to John Galt

If you read my posts then you'd see that I regularly try other search engines and although they mostly work I often end up with less than half a dozen results, many useless, or even none at all. When I try the same search in Google I'll usually get a couple of pages of more useful hits. Just my experience. The last time I used DDG then the exclusions didn't work (e.g. a search for "replace disk in Time Capsule -Youtube" gave me only Youtube hits, instead of excluding them as it does in Google. Some other booleans didn't work in DDG like they do in Google but the overarching reason is that DDG doesn't find stuff that Google does. If I'm being led astray then it's by Google finding the things that I'm looking for. I'm not a Google fan. I wish the competition would get good enough to switch, but at the moment it's not.


I've read all your posts. After your first one I tried to clarify that my use-case is Firefox, Safari and Google. I also made it clear that it is possible to search with Google without an AI summary in Firefox and my original question was how to do this in Safari but you persisted with suggesting other approaches and then seem to get annoyed when I don't want to take them. The fact that I'm not really interested in Brave or changing my search engine to something other than Google doesn't mean that I'm not reading your posts - it means they don't meet my requirements. The fact that my experience with Google doesn't match yours doesn't mean that one of us is wrong, it means that we probably use them differently. I really don't understand why you seem so annoyed by this.

MacOS Safari - Turn off AI summary in Google Search

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