Unless you're wed to google, changing search engines would seem to be in order. [Neither duckduckgo, nor brave pull that sort of ๐คฎ (although I imagine they still collect one's information).]
i'll google the definition of a word and it'll answer and then say something like "if you would like me to help with anything else, such as planning an activity to do in [โcity], feel free to ask" for no reason
what kind of questions are you asking it because stuff like the weather and time zones it needs your location to determine context matters because if you’re asking it for stuff [โthing]s in my (your) area and then getting surprised that it actually tells you about stores IN YOUR AREA that’s a you problem and not the machine’s problem would you have freaked out if it did the same prior to AI overview’s existence? because they still harvested the same amount of location data back then as they do now