Pre-AI Search - Filter Google AI Content

Pre-AI Search is an AI content filter extension for Chrome that reshapes your Google results around one idea: show what people wrote before AI content flooded the web. Flip a toggle, and your search page swaps the usual mixed feed for links published before 2023. The tool also works to remove AI Overviews, the AI summary panel that sits at the top of many search pages.

It's the kind of tool you reach for when everyday searches get worse. Ask Google how to fix a leaking pipe or debug a Python error today, and the first screen fills with thin, AI-generated pages that repeat each other without saying much. Developers, designers, students, and writers started noticing this around 2023, when cheap text generation made it easy to mass-produce filler. Pre-AI Search answers a narrow but real question: where are the pages a person actually wrote?

It leans on Google's own date filter, so it isn't a separate search engine and it won't invent its own index. That's the main limit. It can push results to before 2023, but it can't promise every AI-made page disappears. On top of that, filtering out newer material means you lose genuinely useful recent posts too. Treat it as a lens for reference hunting, not a switch that makes search perfect.

Getting Started

1. Open the Chrome Web Store and add Pre-AI Search to Chrome, then pin the icon to your toolbar. It's the quickest way to hide AI Overviews on the pages you visit most.
2. Run a normal Google search on any topic you're researching.
3. Click the extension icon and flip the toggle on. Results narrow to content published before 2023, and AI Overviews drop from the page.
4. Switch to Pro if you need finer control, then set a custom date range or a specific month to widen or tighten the filter.
5. Toggle it back off whenever you want the full, unfiltered result list.