A web search engine has six parts: crawling the web, indexing documents, filtering spam, ranking results, assisting the user (such as auto-completing a query) and presenting the output. Ranking and spam detection have long relied on machine-learning algorithms, so strictly there is no way to search the web without some AI. What people mean today is generative AI, which writes new text from a prompt. Search engines combine a large language model with pages fetched by the search index, a method called retrieval-augmented generation, to produce AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google offers no official off switch, but adding "&udm=14" to a search address defaults to the plain 'Web' tab, which shows ordinary links without AI summaries.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.