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Did Google fix its AI answers? Or did it just stop showing us AI answers?

June 07, 2024 | Business Insider

Google's AI Overview feature, which generates AI-driven answers to search queries, has faced criticism for providing incorrect and potentially harmful information. Despite extensive testing before its launch, some AI-generated answers have been found to be misleading or dangerous, such as suggesting incorrect health practices

Learning to Live With Google’s AI Overviews

June 06, 2024 | Wired

Google has spent the past year lustily rolling out AI features across its platforms. But with each launch, it is becoming more clear that some of these so-called enhancements should have simmered a little longer

Google's AI Overviews appear on 70% fewer Search results pages now

June 05, 2024 | ZDNET

Google's AI Overviews summaries were a mainstay of its results just a few weeks ago. But now research suggests that things have changed. Only 15% of Google search results display Google AI Overviews results, down from 84% of results leading up to last month's Google I/O conference, SEO insights company Brightedge told Search Engine Land on Tuesday.

Google AI Overviews Shows For Only 15% Queries, Down From 84%

June 05, 2024 | Search Engine Roundtable

New data from BrightEdge shows that Google is showing far fewer AI Overviews than it did when it first launched them as a beta under the Search Generative Experience. Google went from showing AI Overviews for 84% of queries to showing them for less than 15% of queries.

Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco

June 04, 2024 | Wired

Data on how often Google’s new AI Overviews feature appears on search results suggests that the company reduced its visibility even before recommendations like adding glue to pizza sauce went viral.

Google Queries With Featured Snippets, Questions Likely Trigger AI Overviews

June 04, 2024 | MediaPost

BrightEdge Generative Parser released data on Tuesday shows Google’s ability to provide precise responses and anticipate follow-up questions through its generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology. “I have this vision, a metaphor in my mind, that through our AI parser we can peek inside Google Labs and see the changes as they work on them,” said Jim Yu, CEO at BrightEdge, adding that information from AI Overviews does not always serve up.

Google AI Overviews visibility drops, only shows for 15% of queries

June 04, 2024 | Search Engine Land

According to data shared with Search Engine Land by enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge and its BrightEdge Generative Parser, which has been tracking and monitoring SGE and AI Overviews since late last year, Google’s AI Overviews now appear less than 15% of the time.

Google AI Overviews: New Research Offers Insights

June 04, 2024 | Search Engine Journal

New research by BrightEdge offers insights into what kinds of search queries are triggering AI Overviews across multiple verticals

Google unleashes AI in search, raising hopes for better results and fears about less web traffic

May 14, 2024 | Washington Post

Google began testing AI overviews with a small subset of selected users a year ago, but the company is now making it one of the staples in its search results in the U.S. before introducing the feature in other parts of the world. By the end of the year, Google expects the recurring AI overviews to be part of its search results for about 1 billion people.

It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It

May 14, 2024 | Wired

Google is rethinking its most iconic and lucrative product by adding new AI features to search. BrightEdge founder, Jim Yu, tells WIRED it’s “a change in the world order.”