Google AI Overview New Links Go Live, Expands To New Countries & New Labs Features

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By Chris Barnhart Last updated Aug 16, 2024

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Google announced a number of new features across its AI Overviews, including the new AI Overviews links test we saw going live. Google also is adding new Search Labs features and is expanding AI Overviews to more countries.

AI Overview Links

Like I said, we saw Google testing new new links in AI Overviews, even showing over 20 links for a single AI Overview. Well, some of this is going live now.

“We’re introducing more ways to check out relevant websites while you search, with a new
right-hand link display for AI Overviews on desktop – also accessible on mobile by tapping the
site icons on the upper right,” Google wrote.

Here is the illustration Google posted:

Here are the screenshots of this test we posted a few weeks ago:

These link changes are starting to roll out globally as of yesterday for AI
Overviews in all launched countries, as well as for Search Labs users in more than 120 countries
and territories, Google explained.

Google also said it is “testing the addition of links to relevant web pages directly within the text of AI Overviews,” this is in addition to the links they already show.

Google then touts how they care about publishers by writing:

This experiment has shown early, positive results: Showing links to supporting web pages directly within AI Overviews is driving higher traffic to publisher sites. We’ll continue testing different ways of presenting information that’s most helpful for people, while prioritizing
approaches that drive traffic to relevant websites.

Saving AI Overviews

Another test we spotted a few weeks ago was the ability to save AI Overviews. Google wrote, “Just tap the new “save” button underneath your AI Overview, and when you conduct the same search again, you’ll get the same AI Overview in your results. This makes it even easier to access, and click out to the content you were interested in. You can also see your saved AI Overviews by tapping on your profile icon from Search and navigating to your Interests page.”

Here is my screenshot of this from then: