What about what is hard to understand? Google did it because it's better for Google, yes. They no longer have to deal with people trying to hack SEO. Now you w

What about what is hard to understand? Google did it because it's better for Google, yes. They no longer have to deal with people trying to hack SEO. Now you would have to figure out how to influence the training process of google to hijack that box. So it's better for Google to move to AI Overview. What's your point here? I say Google is in a bad position morally or in terms of "doing the right thing" not that one would really expect it from a corporation per se. There is a distinction you know. Google introduced the box as "Excerpt from a search result" box. They traditionally put a lot of care into their search quality and it showed and built trust with their users. Over the years, the search quality dropped. Whether it was less attention from Google, fundamentally harder problem to solve with far more motivated attackers. Yet, the intrusion of bullshit website in the "Excerpt from a search result" box still let you decide that you are not gonna trust medical advice from "mikeInTheDeep.biz" it wasn't ideal that they build trust then let it slip, but being able to see a source with a quote makes it useful when you trust the source. With AI Overview, you either trust it all, don't trust any of it, use it as confirmation bias, don't