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Google said AI Mode search results will show more website links.
The links will be "useful" but no definition for that was given.
Google also said AI Overviews isn't reducing overall web traffic.
Google is experimenting with more ways to encourage users to follow links with relevant information.
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According to an X thread from Robby Stein, VP of product for Google Search, Google is tinkering with methods to display more links in AI Mode search queries, and he explained the new link displays that users may encounter.
Stein's X thread comes three weeks after Liz Reid, VP and head of Google Search, wrote a blog post explaining that Google Search traffic trends have remained unchanged by AI Overviews, a separate AI Google Search tool.
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