Google AI Overviews characteristic has taken one other hit and is now exhibiting for fewer searches than earlier than, as per a report. Dubbed Search Generative Expertise (SGE) throughout its beta testing section, AI Overviews was formally launched in the course of the Google I/O 2024 occasion. The characteristic is presently out there overtly solely within the US and permits customers to get a snapshot of the searched data curated by AI on the highest of the outcomes web page. Nonetheless, after incidents of inaccurate responses, the tech big reportedly rolled again the characteristic in June. It seems the characteristic has now been additional scaled down.
Google AI Overviews’ Visibility Reportedly Diminished
With information from enterprise search engine optimisation platform BrightEdge, a report by SearchEngineLand discovered that AI Overviews have been now exhibiting up for simply seven p.c of the overall search queries on Google. The info was compiled by monitoring the variety of cases the characteristic appeared within the month of June.
As per the report, there was a drop from 11 p.c to seven p.c final month. Three sectors — schooling, leisure, and e-commerce — have reportedly witnessed the most important drop within the visibility of the characteristic. It’s stated that leisure queries have dropped to almost zero p.c from the earlier 14 p.c. Training and e-commerce witnessed a drop from 26 p.c to 13 p.c and 26 p.c to 9 p.c, respectively.
Final month, an analogous report by BrightEdge highlighted that the visibility of AI Overviews dropped to simply 15 p.c. As compared, earlier than mid-April, when the scale-back of the characteristic reportedly started, AI Overviews have been exhibiting for as a lot as 75 p.c of queries. The report additionally discovered that almost all of the AI-collated responses have been proven in a truncated format the place a collapsed view of the reply might be seen.
Quickly after the characteristic’s US launch, some customers started reporting incorrect and weird responses to some queries. In a single occasion, an X (previously often called Twitter) person posted a screenshot the place the AI urged including non-toxic glue to the sauce when looking for an answer to “cheese not sticking to pizza”.
Whereas Google has claimed that it had mounted the problem and improved its monitoring of the characteristic, the visibility of AI Overviews continues to scale back.
