A masterclass in gaslighting users. Google just can't take the L on this one. I don't know anyone personally who found the AI overviews to be helpful. For one,

A masterclass in gaslighting users. Google just can't take the L on this one. I don't know anyone personally who found the AI overviews to be helpful. For one, searching is an act of research, corroborating multiple sources, and the current implementation of AI overviews obstructs this process. There is no trust for these services yet, and for good reason; if the AI is even 5% likely to return a harmful or "satirical" result, it should be treated as a completely unreliable source, and the user should fall back to reading the provided sources anyway. So I'm not sure how this is more helpful than regular vector search. Just about the only useful thing about AI overviews is that it places content at the top of the page, directly beneath the search bar, instead of three full pages down, below two awfully-designed widgets and a dozen sponsored, often nefarious results. That was nice. Too bad it's just another useless widget. Does anyone left at Google with power actually care about delivering a good search product? Earnest question.