The new search results page will feature lists of recommendations, organized in a carousel with star ratings and short, AI-generated summaries of reviews. The list will be augmented with discussions from Reddit and AI-generated lists of recommendations. It's not clear where Google will place its ads on these pages. In a pre-I/O press briefing, CEO Sundar Pichai didn't answer whether the traditional Google Search would survive this change, but emphasized that Google wants to stay focused on the user.
Key takeaways:
- Google announced at the Google I/O 2024 developer conference that it plans to use generative AI to organize the entire search results page for some search results.
- The AI Overview feature, which creates a short snippet with aggregate information about a topic you were searching for, becomes generally available Tuesday.
- Google plans to show these new search results pages when it detects that a user is looking for inspiration, with results for movies, books, hotels, shopping and more coming soon.
- It's not clear where Google will place its ads on these pages, and CEO Sundar Pichai didn't directly answer whether the traditional Google Search would survive the new AI-organized results page.