Less than a week after seemingly doubling down on AI Overviews in Search results, it looks like Google may actually be scaling back on the feature. According to a report from Wired, which cites figures from SEO firm BrightEdge, AI Overviews now only appear in 11% of search queries — down from 27% when it first launched last month.
Clearly having your AI tool tell people to eat rocks and put glue on their pizza isn’t a very good look. But while the company certainly isn’t giving up on the Overview feature, the last thing it needs is for ridicule to be the primary way users are exposed to the tool. So it makes sense that it might want to reign AI Overviews in, and fine tune what it actually suggests to people.
