MacOS Safari - Turn off AI summary in Google Search

Thanks, John, but I want to keep Google search as the default search and I thought there might be a way without typing "-ai" after every search to get rid of the annoying AI summary. This is possible in FF so I wondered if someone had found a way to do it with Safari. I use both browsers depending on workflow.

Thanks, Idris. In Firefox I've done the 3rd one and added a custom search which uses Google without the AI summary. All I want to know whether/how this can be done with Safari. When I go to Safari's settings I can only find the preset search engines (Google, Yahoo [ffs], Bing, DDG and Ecosia). There's no option to add a custom search engine.

Your post is a perfect illustration of why I don't want the AI summary - half of it is useless. uBlock doesn't work for Safari any more. Using a browser other than Chrome doesn't work without a workround.

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.

Thanks, Mac Jim. That's a shame. The main thing I've learned today is that I could default Safari to Yahoo search. I thought Yahoo had died years ago.

I'll have a dig around the extensions and apps but I'll just have to keep adding -ai to searches in Safari unless I can be bothered to add a keyboard shortcut.

I use Google (without an account) cos it's the best at finding things and that's all I want from a search engine. I understand tracking, ads, page rank, etc. and I use a range of JS, ad and cookie management add-ons in both FF and (to a lesser extent) Safari to navigate the cesspool. Every few months I try DDG to see if it's got any better but so far I've always ended up back with Google within a couple of days cos DDG simply doesn't find stuff and its search modifiers aren't as good - or indeed didn't work at all the last time I used it. Brave is no good for me on my Mac cos of the lack of add-ons. I use it sometimes on iPhone and iPad with sites that have annoying JS, but I can't remember the last time I used Safari or Brave on my phone.

"Google is going to make that as hard to do as possible."

Not at the moment they don't. They make it incredibly easy to do in Firefox (I've done it) and possibly other browsers. It requires a custom Google search to be set up. My original question was whether I could do this in Safari and that was answered ages ago by Jim.

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.