https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-ai-how-to-block-googles-annoying-ai-overviews-and-just-get-search-results

Bye Bye, AI:  | Tom's Hardware

Good article but lots of steps in there.  For the unwashed masses who don't even know how to change the default search engine this is too involved.

There have always been 3 strategies for taking down Google:

1. Build a better search engine than Google.
2. Wait for Google to stumble, badly.
3. Gov't anti-trust regulation.

This blind leap into AI search might be #2 Google's Big Stumble, if people get tired of drinking their own urine which might be a longshot after Tide pods.  And #3 might happen.  So what I'm saying is we might have a convergence of #2 and #3 happening. 

>lots of steps

Debbie: Dark pattern.

from the Ars Technica article posted:
"The power-user way to use Google Search web now takes a lot of clicks. You'd want to click on "more" and then "Web" for actual web results, and then to get Google to actually pay attention to the words you type in, you'd want to click "Tools" and change "all results" to "verbatim." Alternatively, you could also find a more web-focused search engine instead of Google."

>3. Gov't anti-trust regulation

Somehow, I think this shift is in preparation for the inevitable US anti-trust regulation.  EU has already started tightening the screws on tracking.