AI has been getting all up in our search results for a while now, with dubious results. While Google's AI Overviews feature had a rocky reception—what with it recommending you drink urine and all—it's not the only search engine that's been experimenting with a good dose of AI on its search pages.
Microsoft introduced LLM-powered chat answers to Bing early last year, and now it's started experimenting with a "new generative search experience" for a small percentage of user queries (via The Verge). Some users searching for the query "What is a spaghetti western", for example, are now greeted with a page that not only puts an AI box front and center, but adds sourcing information for the AI result underneath, squeezing the more traditional search results list off to the side.
