Google AI Overviews Reportedly Pared Back Further, Shows for Just 7 Percent of All Searches

Google AI Overviews function has taken one other hit and is now displaying for fewer searches than earlier than, as per a report. Dubbed Search Generative Experience (SGE) throughout its beta testing part, AI Overviews was formally launched in the course of the Google I/O 2024 occasion. The function is at the moment out there overtly solely within the US and permits customers to get a snapshot of the searched info curated by AI on the highest of the outcomes web page. However, after incidents of inaccurate responses, the tech big reportedly rolled again the function in June. It seems the function has now been additional scaled down.

Google AI Overviews’ Visibility Reportedly Reduced

With information from enterprise search engine optimisation platform BrightEdge, a report by SearchEngineLand discovered that AI Overviews have been now displaying up for simply seven p.c of the full search queries on Google. The information was compiled by monitoring the variety of situations the function 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 — training, leisure, and e-commerce — have reportedly witnessed the most important drop within the visibility of the function. It is claimed that leisure queries have dropped to almost zero p.c from the earlier 14 p.c. Education and e-commerce witnessed a drop from 26 p.c to 13 p.c and 26 p.c to 9 p.c, respectively.

Last month, an analogous report by BrightEdge highlighted that the visibility of AI Overviews dropped to simply 15 p.c. In comparability, earlier than mid-April, when the scale-back of the function reportedly started, AI Overviews have been displaying 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 could be seen.

Soon after the function’s US launch, some customers started reporting incorrect and weird responses to some queries. In one occasion, an X (previously often known as Twitter) person posted a screenshot the place the AI instructed including non-toxic glue to the sauce when trying to find an answer to “cheese not sticking to pizza”.

While Google has claimed that it had fastened the problem and improved its monitoring of the function, the visibility of AI Overviews continues to cut back.