Google, AI Overviews
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A new study claims that users who encountered Google's AI Overview feature, which generates a summary in response to a web search query were less likely to click on links to other websites compared to those who didn’t have a similar interaction with the AI-powered tool.
Google Search’s AI Overview previously gave confident but wrong answers for the simple search query “Is it 2025?”. This has now been fixed, and AI Overview gives the right answer.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned at the I/O 2025 annual developer conference that AI Overview has over 1.5 billion monthly active users.If Google truly wants this number to increase rapidly, it ...
Now, Google has brought those fake AI podcasts to search results as a test. Instead of clicking links or reading the AI Overview, you can have two nonexistent people tell you what the results say .
Google Search’s AI Overview results are known to confidently give wrong answers, and they continue to do so. The latest gaffe surfaced when users asked if it is 2025, to which AI Overview ...
An AI-based explanation at the top of Google's results page. Launched in 2024, when announced the year before, it was known as Search Generative Experience (SGE). The Google AI Overview ...
The first time I asked Google Search for confirmation of the year, the AI results included a shot at the exact date as well: “It is May 28, 2024.” (I ran these tests on May 29, 2025.)
At Google I/O 2025, the company announced a slew of new AI features, while ignoring a major problem with AI models: hallucinations.
Position: “An AI Overview occupies a single position in search results, and all links in the AI Overview are assigned that same position.”; Clicks: “Clicking a link to an external page in ...