The feature, renamed 'AI Overview,' is here now, and it feels like the biggest change to Google Search ever. The top of many results (especially questions) are now dominated by an AI box that scrapes the web and gives you a sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result.
First is that AI Overview is a lot faster than SGE. For some popular queries, it seems like Google is caching the AI answer, which should help with the high cost of running generative AI. When you aren't getting a cached result, you'll see a blank AI overview box that loads in with the search page, which will say 'searching' while it loads for a second or two.
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