Google further buries search results under AI mode
AI KEY TAKEAWAYS (TL;DR)
- Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable
- The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with a "Show more" button you can click, you'll Google will show a full AI Overview at the top of your search, an "Ask anything" box under that, and then the list of links
- It can lead to a lot of scrolling
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Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with a "Show more" button you can click, you'll Google will show a full AI Overview at the top of your search, an "Ask anything" box under that, and then the list of links. It can lead to a lot of scrolling. It's unclear exactly what Google's criteria is for the auto-expanding AI Overviews. Before writing this story, I was seeing them … Read the full story at The Verge.
