Google has updated its help documentation page on AI Overviews to tell searchers how to show only web results in its search results (not show AI Overviews, videos, image, etc), plus how to give feedback on the AI Overviews Google provides. This obviously comes based on the backlash Google has received on some of these AI Overviews.

If you compare the help documentation page today to the old one, you will see Google added two sections. Here are the two sections Google added:

Show only web links in Google Search

AI Overviews are a core Google Search feature, like knowledge panels. Features can’t be turned off. However, you can select the Web filter after you perform a search. This filter displays only text-based links without features like AI Overviews.

Give feedback

If you get an AI Overview that you feel is unsafe, not helpful, inaccurate, or bad for any other reason, you can let us know by submitting feedback. Your feedback will help this experience improve.

At the top right of the overview, click Menu .  
Tap Feedback.  
Select the element of the AI overview your feedback is about.  
Select the feedback category. 
Optional: Add a description.
Click Send.

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This makes sense based on all the backlash recently about AI overviews and how easy it is to find bad AI Overviews. Here are some of the articles from the weekend on this:

Google AI Overviews under fire for giving dangerous and wrong answers, Search Engine Land
Glue pizza and eat rocks: Google AI search errors go viral, BBC

“Google is dead.” Google’s desperate bid to chase Microsoft’s search AI has led to it recommending eating rocks, Windows Central
For some reason, Google lets AI “answer” medical questions in “Search”, The Decoder
Glue on pizza? Google’s AI Overview shares wacky answers, Silicon Republic
Google AI makes string of errors after relying on joke websites, Telegraph
Google AI Overview Results Spread Conspiracy Theories, Pizza Glue Recipe, Rolling Stone
Google AI Overviews keep making mistakes in ‘isolated examples’, 9to5Google
Google AI Overviews Search Errors Cause Furor Online, New York Times
Google criticized as AI Overview makes errors, like saying President Obama is Muslim, CNBC
Google Is Playing a Dangerous Game With AI Search, The Atlantic
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza, The Verge
Google says the ‘vast majority’ of AI Overviews are good, 9to5Google
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination, Gizmodo
Google’s AI Overviews Being Laughed at by CEO of Perplexity, Business Insider
Google’s AI search tool produces flubs and fabrications, QZ
Google’s AI faces social media mockery after viral errors, NBC News
Google’s AI Keeps Hallucinating. Does Anyone Care?, Bloomberg
Google’s AI Overview Appears To Produce Misleading Answers, Forbes
Google’s AI search tool tells users to ‘eat rocks’ for your health, Financial Times (Sub)
Shut it down: Google’s AI search results are beyond terrible, Android Authority
The Reason That Google’s AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw With Tech Companies’ AI Obsession, Futurism
What Is Google’s AI Overviews, and Why Is It Getting Things Wrong?, CNET
Why Google’s AI search might recommend you mix glue into your pizza, Washington Post
17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web, Tom’s Hardware
Google is in damage control mode following AI Overviews fiasco, Android Police
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search, The Verge
Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage, Futurism
Can you trust Google AI search results? The internet is unconvinced., Mashable
In our tests Google’s AI Overviews were faster, more bizarre, and sometimes just fine, Mashable
Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ advises adding glue to pizza sauce, lists ‘health benefits’ of tobacco for tweens, NY Post
Users Report Google’s AI Overview Thinks Tons of Fictional Characters Are Gay, Them
What are Google’s AI Overviews good for?, TechCrunch

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