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Google Discover now wants you to read and see less of the actual internet

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Why This Matters

Google is testing a 'Dive deeper' feature in Discover that replaces click-throughs to publisher content with AI-generated summaries, echoing the AI Overviews approach already reshaping Search. This matters because it could further erode referral traffic to news sites and video creators, threatening the business model that depends on users actually visiting their content.

Key Takeaways

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TL;DR Google is testing a new feature called “Dive deeper” in Google Discover.

The button will give you an AI-generated overview of a topic instead of sending you to a webpage.

The new experience can also surface links to related stories, community reactions, and original reporting if you want to explore further.

For users, it could make Discover more convenient, but it may also mean fewer people actually open the publisher articles that appear in their feeds.

Google Discover is testing a new way to make you learn more about the stories appearing in your feed, and it could mean you spend less time actually reading what your favorite websites are reporting and watching videos from the creators you like.

The new feature, called “Dive deeper,” adds an AI-generated overview when you want to explore a topic further. Google says it is designed to make it easier to explore a topic and find related content without having to jump between different webpages.

Instead of taking you to the publisher’s article or video shown in your Discover feed, “Dive deeper” will take you to a page with a short AI-generated summary of the topic, much like AI Overviews in Search.

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