[russellbeattie]

Not sure what the fuss is about. I've actually found the overviews to be quite helpful for a bunch of my searches since it was turned on. My impression so far has been nothing but positive.

Is it a principles thing or are people really hating on having to scroll past a paragraph or two? If it's the former, well good luck with that.

In general, Google is really undermining their whole business model with the AI Overview paragraph as it will take away from their AdWord link revenue just as much as organic traffic to other sites.

Once Google realizes this, they'll inevitably have to manipulate the AI paragraph content for commercial reasons. That'll be fun! Then everyone will look back on the current "clean" AI output with fondness.

[ApolloFortyNine]

I agree, imo it needs to be slightly smarter at when it turns itself off, as I've had it pop up for queries that I'd rather click a link for and on mobile it takes up most of the screen.

But for many other queries I do quickly get the answer I was looking for.

>In general, Google is really undermining their whole business model with the AI Overview paragraph as it will take away from their AdWord link revenue just as much as organic traffic to other sites.

The future is probably selectively biased ai, as scary as that sounds.