Searching with AI is convenient: AI Mode and AI Overviews pull together information from a handful of sites into a single text and deliver an answer to your question instantly. But there is a problem lurking in the shadow of that convenience — the site that supplied the answer can all but disappear from the screen. Google has now announced a series of changes aimed squarely at this issue.
With the update, links will be placed in the upper region of AI answers, news content will be supported with images, and it will become easier to jump to creators' profiles from video results. For publishers whose traffic has been declining, the move is a critical one: the distance between the answer you read on screen and the page that produced it is being shortened.
Links will sit above the answer
The addresses currently sprinkled through the answer text will appear far more frequently and be positioned higher up the page. Users will no longer need to scroll to the end of the text to find out where a given piece of information came from.
In addition, the sources at the bottom of an answer will be dressed up with small preview images to make them more eye-catching. Google's goal is simple: not just to deliver the answer, but to make getting to the pages behind it effortless.
One-tap access to creators
If you enjoy a video, you may want to explore what else that person has published. In AI Mode's video results, creator names are now clickable; tapping a name takes the user to that person's Google Search profile, where they can browse their other work.
In other words, it is now possible to start from a single video and discover everything that creator has made.
A dedicated section for official sites
For users looking to take a specific action, one or two official websites will be presented in a dedicated box at the top of the AI answer. News carousels, which showcase current stories with images, will also become available across a wider range of languages and regions.
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