Google Now Smothers Links with AI Summaries, Users Endure Scenic Scrollathon
KEY POINTS
- •Google introduced an auto-expanding AI Overview feature at the top of some search result pages in early 2025.
- •This change pushes usual link lists far down, requiring users to scroll more to find them.
- •Google's exact criteria for triggering these expansive AI summaries remain unclear as of this update.
In a dazzling move of AI enthusiasm as of early 2025, Google decided mere snippets weren’t enough. To spice up your online detective work, the tech giant now auto-expands its AI Overviews atop some search results, shoving that familiar list of links so far down the page you'll need GPS. Search Engine Roundtable broke this news, revealing that instead of a discreet 'Show more' button, users get a full AI monologue followed by an 'Ask anything' box—because who doesn’t want to interrogate an algorithm after a digital sermon? According to The Verge's February 2025 coverage, Google's criteria for picking when to unleash this verbose beast remain cryptic, maybe even to Google itself. So arm your scroll wheel and prepare that finger workout; your search for 'cat videos' now comes with bonus reading and existential scrolling.
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(1 of 3)Google's new search makeover: more AI chat, less link access. Congrats, web surfers—your thumbs just got a free gym membership.
Why skim search links when Google invites you to read their AI’s thesis instead? Everyone loves a surprise novel in the morning.
Google’s strategy: bury links deep so you either scroll forever or finally ask the AI for the cliff notes. Pretty sure it’s performance art.
Source: Theverge | Published: 8/28/2026 | Author: Jay Peters
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