Search Engines Without AI Summaries: The Technical Case for Returning to Links

The article criticizes AI-generated search summaries from Google, Bing, and Perplexity for oversimplifying results and hiding useful context.

It argues these summaries can blur disagreements between sources, mask caveats, and lead to quiet but serious errors.

For technical, medical, or legal queries, the risk is especially high because users may trust a polished answer over primary sources.

The piece also notes that Google search can be switched back to the classic view with the udm=14 parameter.