{"id":6204,"date":"2026-08-28T22:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:57:03","slug":"google-search-ai-overviews-auto-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6204","title":{"rendered":"Google further buries search results under AI mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-overviews-push-ai-mode-responses-41974.html\">as reported by <em>Search Engine Roundtable<\/em><\/a>. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google\u2019s results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with a \u201cShow more\u201d button you can click, you\u2019ll Google will show a full AI Overview at the top of your search, an \u201cAsk anything\u201d box under that, and <em>then<\/em> the list of links. It can lead to a lot of scrolling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">It\u2019s unclear exactly what Google\u2019s criteria is for the auto-expanding AI Overviews. Before writing this story, I was seeing them with most of my test searches. But now, AI Overviews usually just show the initial part of the response and the \u201cShow more\u201d button. My most consistent query to get the auto-expanding AI Overview is \u201cwhat is the best game on switch 2\u201d, but even that hasn\u2019t been consistent across searches and browsers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cFor some queries, AI Overviews may dynamically expand for topics where our systems determine it\u2019s most useful for people,\u201d Google spokesperson Jennifer Kutz says in a statement to <em>The Verge<\/em>. \u201cOur research has shown that with this dynamic experience, users find Search more helpful and engage deeper in follow-up exploration.\u201d Kutz also says that \u201cIf users have already begun scrolling to view content below the AI Overview, we cancel expansion so that the user doesn\u2019t lose their reading position.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/986364\/google-search-ai-overviews-auto-expand\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google\u2019s results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32,46,34],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-google","tag-news","tag-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google further buries search results under AI mode - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google Search now automatically expands AI Overviews at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6204\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google further buries search results under AI mode - 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