When Google rolled out AI Overviews in search results back in May, the company was hit with an immediate backlash; mostly due to some of the absurd results that the AI summaries were providing. These included telling people to add glue to pizza or claiming that adding more cooking oil to an oil fire would help put it out.
A week after its introduction, Google had already reduced the prevalence of AI Overviews from 27% of search results all the way down to 11%.
