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Google Search AI Overviews Auto-Expand Further Down
Google is automatically expanding AI summaries at the top of searches, shoving actual links and real web sources even further out of view.
theverge.comGoogle has started automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of results pages for select queries, according to Search Engine Roundtable. The update pushes the traditional list of links significantly further down the screen.
- Google is auto-expanding AI summaries at the top of search results for some queries.
- The layout change pushes standard lists of web links much farther down the page.
- Previous user data shows people are less likely to click on actual result links when an AI summary is present.
WHY THIS MATTERSWHY THIS MATTERS: Finding actual information, primary sources, and independent websites on Google just got more annoying. If you want real links instead of automated summaries, you now have to scroll past even more AI-generated filler.