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Google Expands AI Search Summaries, Pushing Links Down Results Page
WHY IT MATTERS
This change may lead to increased scrolling for users, potentially affecting their search experience and behavior, as they navigate through the expanded AI summaries and links.
What happened
Google is now automatically expanding AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches. This change pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down the results page.
Instead of seeing a partial AI Overview with a 'Show more' button, users will see a full AI Overview at the top, followed by an 'Ask anything' box and then the list of links.
The exact criteria for auto-expanding AI Overviews is unclear.
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