Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including “disregard”, “ignore”, and “skip”
The Verge Jay Peters
Related Coverage
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- Google ‘disregard’ right now if you want to see where AI overviews fall short Business Insider · Katherine Li
- Google AI Overview Bug Pushes Dictionary Results Aside, Confuses Search Users Tech Times · Jose Enrico
- What happened when people Googled ‘disregard’ on May 22? Hindustan Times · Trisha Sengupta
- Don't search ‘disregard’ — Google's new AI experience is breaking search (Update: Google responds) Tom's Guide · Scott Younker
- Google's ‘biggest upgrade in 25 years’ stumbles over one simple word WKYC-TV · Jarrett Wright
- Google's AI Overviews are so confused, it can't tell if you're looking something up (Update) Android Authority · Ryan McNeal
- Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box NPR · John Ruwitch
- AI may have broken Google in the funniest way you can imagine PhoneArena · Ilia Temelkov
- Google's AI Overviews break the dictionary when you use words like ‘disregard’ 9to5Google · Ben Schoon
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- Time to switch to Bing? Searching for words like ‘disregard’ or ‘ignore’ breaks AI Overviews in Google Search TechRadar · David Nield
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Discussion
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@ariadotwav
Aria
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oh my fucking god bruh [image]
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@merriamwebster
@merriamwebster
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disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice [image]
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@user823493247
@user823493247
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genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks
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@heysaik
Sai Kambampati
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this is hilarious [image]
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@lilyraynyc
Lily Ray
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Yeah it works for me too. What a blunder and right after Google IO 2026. Almost as bad as glue on pizza. Maybe Google should have, idk, kept the dictionary tool for dictionary queries. [image]
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@clemmieragatha
Clementine
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hi everyone here is how you get rid of ai overviews on google I swear to god it works [image]
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@tmu
Teemu Hallamaa
on bluesky
Jep, lol [embedded post]
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r/technology
r
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Google's AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you're looking for
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@WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social
Warner Crocker
on mastodon
If Kagi doesn't seize this moment in a bigger way, it would be a big miss. — Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search — #Google #Kagi #Search — https://www.wired.com/... [image]
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@mikell
Mikell Taylor
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I've noticed recently how impossible it's been to find actual search results instead of AI summaries and ads on Google search, especially on my phone, and I switched my default search engine to DuckDuckGo in the app settings. No regrets. You can too. www.wired.com/story/even-i.…