Google AI Overviews characteristic has taken one other hit and is now displaying for fewer searches than earlier than, as per a report. Dubbed Search Generative Expertise (SGE) throughout its beta testing part, AI Overviews was formally launched throughout the Google I/O 2024 occasion. The characteristic is presently accessible brazenly 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. Nevertheless, after incidents of inaccurate responses, the tech large reportedly rolled again the characteristic in June. It seems the characteristic has now been additional scaled down.
Google AI Overviews’ Visibility Reportedly Decreased
With information from enterprise website positioning platform BrightEdge, a report by SearchEngineLand discovered that AI Overviews had been now displaying up for simply seven % of the full search queries on Google. The information was compiled by monitoring the variety of situations the characteristic appeared within the month of June.
As per the report, there was a drop from 11 % to seven % final month. Three sectors — training, leisure, and e-commerce — have reportedly witnessed the largest drop within the visibility of the characteristic. It’s mentioned that leisure queries have dropped to just about zero % from the earlier 14 %. Schooling and e-commerce witnessed a drop from 26 % to 13 % and 26 % to 9 %, respectively.
Final month, an identical report by BrightEdge highlighted that the visibility of AI Overviews dropped to simply 15 %. Compared, earlier than mid-April, when the scale-back of the characteristic reportedly started, AI Overviews had been displaying for as a lot as 75 % of queries. The report additionally discovered that almost all of the AI-collated responses had been proven in a truncated format the place a collapsed view of the reply could 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 referred to as Twitter) person posted a screenshot the place the AI recommended including non-toxic glue to the sauce when trying to find an answer to “cheese not sticking to pizza”.
Whereas Google has claimed that it had mounted the difficulty and improved its monitoring of the characteristic, the visibility of AI Overviews continues to scale back.
