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Bing's AI-Off Switch for Chrome Also Makes Bing the Default Search Engine

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Adding -ai to any Bing query also hides AI answers, yet advertisers get no word on what happens to their ads. Will Chrome users swap Google to get the toggle?
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From now on, Bing already allows normal searches, without answers generated by artificial intelligence, through two new options.

Redmond believes that users should have the choice of whether or not to display the answers generated by the IA in Bing's search results. It will deploy an extension to allow you to disable them.

Microsoft makes it possible to disable the AI functions in Bing via a browser extension. However, the add-on brings a clear limitation. During installation, the software automatically changes the default search engine in the browser to Bing. (Continue reading)

Microsoft released an extension for Chrome and Edge that allows you to turn off summaries and chat features with AI in Bing results, and also offers a command to do so in each query.

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Windows Central broke the news on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
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