GoKawiilGoogle auto-expands AI Overviews, pushing traditional search links further down
Google has begun automatically expanding AI Overviews at the top of some search results pages, rather than requiring users to click a 'Show more' button. This pushes the usual list of website links, and an 'Ask anything' box, further down the page, forcing more scrolling to reach traditional results. Google says the behavior is inconsistent and applies only to select queries where its systems determine an expanded view is more useful.
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This continues a trend of AI-generated summaries displacing traditional search links, which could reduce click-through traffic to publishers and websites that rely on search referrals. Google frames the change as improving user engagement, but it also deepens the shift toward keeping users inside Google's own AI answers rather than sending them elsewhere.
- AI Overviews can now auto-expand to full length instead of needing a manual click
- The change pushes traditional search result links much further down the page
- Google says the criteria for triggering auto-expansion is inconsistent and query-dependent
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