Google’s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources
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As Google brings AI Overviews to six new countries, it’s also changing the way the generated summaries display citations. Instead of putting relevant webpages directly in the AI-generated summary, Google is adding a new display to the right of the response that shows cited webpages more prominently.
This new format is rolling out today, and it will also show up on mobile when you select the site icons that appear in the top-right corner of the AI Overview. “We are using the right-hand-side space to prominently display the links to the AI Overview so that people can navigate to the content that they’re interested in,” Hema Budaraju, Google’s senior director of product management for Search, tells The Verge. Google will continue to display…
