Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

May 22, 2026 Jay Peters

Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term "disregard," the AI Overview section would include a response like what you'd see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as spotted on X. As you can see in the image at the top of this story, I got an AI Overview response that said, "Got it. If you need anything else or have a new question later, just let me know!"

As of Friday afternoon, however, Google isn't showing an AI Overview for the term "disregard" at all - instead, it shows a list of news stories about the issue first. Google hasn' …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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