in a ai-overviews-search-october-2024/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:blog post;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>blog post Today, Google said it will make ai overviews in Google Search available to users living in more than 100 countries. Google says people like ai Overviews, so the company plans to reach 1 billion users each month. Additionally, Google is adding support for more languages, meaning users in Japan can get ai-generated summaries in Japanese, for example.
If you're not already familiar with ai overviews, it's a feature found in Google Search. Google's Gemini ai model will generate a summary every time you search for something. This summary appears at the top of the page. In addition to answering questions, it can also act as a meal planner, vacation organizer, and idea-sharing tool, among many other things.
This update follows several released in recent months since the introduction of ai Overviews in May. The most recent update before this allowed users to visit websites by clicking on links within the ai overview text. Google says this has resulted in increased traffic to “supporting websites.” However, some publishers and sites fear that summaries will destroy their traffic by being the first thing people see.
News like this isn't surprising, since Google has been incorporating as much ai into Search as it can. The ai overviews have also sparked some controversy after the ai told people to put glue on pizza. While this has been fixed, Google prevents ai responses from appearing when users search for some topics.
