According to new data, Google is still scaling back AI Overviews in Search, now showing them in less than 10% of queries.
AI Overviews are continuing to show up less and less in Google Search, with a new report finding they’re appearing in less than 10% of search queries.
It’s been just over two months since Google launched AI Overviews for all search users in the US, and the fallout from that has been rough… for Google. While many feared that AI Overviews would draw significant portions of the internet away from individual websites, massive and viral errors produced by AI Overviews led to Google seemingly deciding to scale back the project in major ways.
Data published in early June revealed that Google had gone from showing AI Overviews in over 80% of searches for preview testers down to around 40-50% when the feature first launched widely in May, down to a mere 15% in the weeks following viral mistakes such as putting glue on pizza.
