Google is currently struggling to define words like disregard, stop and ignore

Key points

• Google appears to be running into some hiccups after the company began rolling out its updated, and even more AI-focused search experience at I/O 2026. Currently, searching for the words "disregard," "stop" or "ignore" on Google no longer displays a snippet with a definition, and instead offers an AI Overview and a lot of blank space.
• Because users have complained about the issue on social media, and publications like TechCrunch and Macrumors have reported on it, even if you don't get a definition, you might still get a collection of links to articles documenting the issue before the traditional list of links.
• Multiple members of Engadget's staff were able to recreate the strange AI Overview responses with their own personal Google searches.
• In Incognito Mode, Google responded correctly once by displaying its usual snippet with the definition, and failed a second time by once again responding with an AI Overview....