[hombre_fatal]

I'm sure they added it with reluctance, and they had to do it because LLM services are eating Google Search's lunch.

Google even put the AI snippet above their ads, so you know how bad it stings.

[prerok]

I'm pretty sure the sibling comment is right, though. Just like original Google, they will give you the summaries, then when they will slowly win the battle, they will start product placements galore in the summaries.