Turning off Gemini in Google Search for Students?

[MattDPenn]

Greetings all,

So we have Gemini turned off for our student OUs out of a abundance of caution but I've recently noticed that students appear to still be able to talk to Gemini in Google searches in some capacity. Though I could be misunderstanding how this AI enabled search functions. Is there any way to turn Gemini/AI Overview off in Google Search?

The only thing I've been able to dig up so far is using xFanatical's Safe Doc extension or possibly blocking "udm=50" deals with part of it.

[smackall]

We weren't able to find any tools for this in the admin console (which is a shame). There are currently two AI integrations available in a  google search. One is the automatic AI response (AI Overview) that appears above search results, and one is the "AI Mode" view. Our filtering company helped us add *google.com/async* and */async/folif* to our block list, which blocks  answers in "AI Mode". For AI Overview we have student searches use "simple google" as outlined here: https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Blocking-Google-Translate-for-students/m-p... (this also strips their results of all the info google surfaces now,  such as "things to know,""people also asked," "person overview," etc.)

Hoping there is a more organic solution for this eventually. 

[MattDPenn]

huh, interesting how to nuke AI Overview you also have to nuke Google Translate. I'm not sure staff will be a huge fan of that but we also don't have a lot of English language learners. I may need to poke at seeing how often students are translating stuff beyond trying to look up curse words in other languages.

[alexgrutza]

For what it's worth, there are Google Chrome policies that will disable Gemini in Chrome and AI Mode for users that shouldn't have access. I don't know if that affects the "AI Overview" on a simple google search, but it will remove the functionality of the AI Mode within Chrome as long as the user is signed into their Chrome browser with their organization account. I am not sure if there is a GPO option for Windows for disabling it without being signed in. 

[Kim_Nilsson]

Adding this in URL Blocking stops some of it. All characters necessary.

*?udm=50*

It will block that phrase all over internet on all Google domains.