Google knows you like AI Overviews so much, it’s putting AI Overviews in yo

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• Google appears to be working on a way to expand AI Overviews with additional information.
• Selecting text from one AI Overview can prompt Google to create a new one focused on your selection.
• This only seems to work for Overview text, and not general Search results.

Have you come around to accepting the presence of AI-generated summaries in your search results? We saw Google introduce its AI Overviews in Search earlier this year, and while we’re sure many of you were scrambling to find ways to turn AI Overviews off, Google’s definitely been working to make the case for their utility. Today we’re checking out a new way to interact with AI Overviews that Google seems to be currently testing, letting you double-down on the AI analysis.

We’re checking out a tip from Eli_Blau on Telegram who shared with AA contributor Assemble Debug some interesting new behavior they spotted in version 15.45.33 beta of the Google app on a Pixel 7a. While getting an AI Overview at the top of your results is nothing new, Blau noticed that the app now lets you select a portion of that Overview to get further information on it — essentially, it’s pulling up a new AI Overview from within an existing one.




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