AI Overviews
AI Overviews are the AI-written answers Google places above its normal list of links.
In a little more detail
They are the single biggest change to how search results look in twenty years. They tend to satisfy the reader on the page, which is why sites can see impressions hold up while clicks fall.
Related terms
- Zero-click search: A zero-click search is one where the person gets what they needed without visiting any website.
- AI Mode: AI Mode is Google's fully conversational search experience, where the whole result is an answer you can ask follow-up questions of.
- SEO: SEO, or search engine optimization, is the work of getting a page of your website to appear high in a list of search results.
See it on your own site
The scan reads your site the way AI search does and reports where you stand on this and sixteen other checks.