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Google further buries search results under AI mode
The Verge • • technology
Key Points:
- Google has started automatically expanding AI-generated search summaries at the top of the results page for certain queries, pushing traditional link lists further down and requiring more scrolling.
- Instead of a partial AI Overview with a “Show more” button, users now often see a full AI Overview along with an “Ask anything” box before the usual search results.
- The criteria for when these auto-expanding AI Overviews appear is unclear and inconsistent, with some queries like “what is the best game on switch 2” more likely to trigger the feature.
- Google states the dynamic expansion is intended to make search more helpful and encourage deeper user engagement, and it will stop expanding if users have already started scrolling to avoid disrupting their reading position.
