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• @tal@lemmy.today 2026-09-24 03:59

  Don’t they have to be old to have used “Old Google”? Nah. The article’s “old Google” is just Google that isn’t sticking an AI response at the top: Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. That deployed quite recently. searches en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Overviews AI Overviews is an artificial intelligence (AI) feature integrated into Google Search that produces AI-generated responses at the top of search results. It uses the Gemini 3 family of large language models developed by Google DeepMind. It launched in May 2024 in the United States, and globally by October 2024. A June 2025 study found its most cited sources as Quora, followed by Reddit.

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