@datarama

Google "AI overview" is their old #Ai model, it's a hybrid system RAGing off their search engine with an ancient AI that is likely preceding the already sub standard Gemini 1.5-7

In fact when #google first deployed it Gemini was but a twinkle in the devs eye, so it's some dead ended Bard version.

Why do they use it?
1) Because it uses little compute comparing to the later reasoner models. Scale it across 16billion searches a day, it's $1,600,000 / day on the cheapest query AI cost or a more realistic $160million per day. So it makes perfect sense financially to tune the engine so it's right 95% of the time so you can save $100mil a day.

2) Frankly, because vast majority of queries can be satisfactorily served.

3) The quality of #googlesearch has been documented to decline so you spend more time on their page generating ad revenue.

Edit; numbers

#aioverview

Today: Ai Overview: 3 modi per bloccare l'intelligenza artificiale dai risultati di Google

Ormai da tempo consultare Google non è più l'esperienza ‘pulita’ a cui eravamo abituati un tempo. Da quando il colosso di Mountain View ha deciso di integrare l'intelligenza artificiale generativa in cima ai risultati di ricerca, trovare l'informazione di cui necessitiamo è diventato un vero e...

AI Overview: 3 Ways to Block AI from Google Results

Nowadays, consulting Google is no longer the “clean” experience we were used to. Since the giant from Mountain View decided to integrate generative artificial intelligence at the top of search results, finding the information we need has become a real and…

#AIOverview #GoogleResults #Google #MountainView

https://www.today.it/tech/come-evitare-ai-overview-risultati-ricerca-google.html

La recherche en ligne change et Google, après avoir envahi l'espace avec #AIOverview, veut redonner un peu de visibilité aux liens.

Ca donne l'impression qu'ils donnent quelques miettes 😬 . Mon job de #SEO a évolué et les KPIs ne sont plus les mêmes pour les entreprises. La bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'à force de pousser pour du contenu qui intéresse vraiment les gens, ça commence à se voir chez mes clients :)

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-links-will-be-more-visible-in-ai-overviews/567719/

#Google #Search #searchengine #web

AI Mode di Google promette più visibilità ai link web
#AI #AIMode #AIOverview #Google #GoogleAI #GoogleSearch #MotoreDiRicerca #Novità #RicercaGoogle #RobbyStein #SearchAI #SEO #TechNews #Tecnologia #TrafficoWeb

https://www.ceotech.it/ai-mode-di-google-promette-piu-visibilita-ai-link-web/

AI 검색이 클릭률 58% 줄였다, SEO 전략 근본부터 바뀐다

https://aisparkup.com/posts/9058

Google Search: arriva Gemini 3 e nuova modalità AI Mode
#Aggiornamento #AI #AIMode #AIOverview #Android #AppGoogle #Gemini3 #Google #GoogleSearch #IntelligenzaArtificiale #iOS #Novità #NuoveFunzioni #RicercaGoogle #TechNews #Tecnologia

https://www.ceotech.it/google-search-arriva-gemini-3-e-nuova-modalita-ai-mode/

#Google #AI Overviews cite #YouTube more than any #medical site for #health queries, study suggests | The Guardian

Researchers at SE Ranking, a search engine optimisation platform, found YouTube made up 4.43% of all #AIOverview citations. No #hospital network, government health portal, medical association or academic institution came close to that number, they said.

“YouTube is not a medical publisher,” the researchers wrote. “Anyone can upload content there ”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/google-ai-overviews-youtube-medical-citations-study

Ja, scho recht...

#ki #aioverview #google

Weekly output: FCC frees Verizon from phone-unlocking rule, Donut Lab’s solid-state battery, Wikipedia turns 25, Google traffic trends

This week brought a lot of unpleasant headlines, but none made me feel uneasy like the news that Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson was subjected to an unexpected visit by the FBI at her house Wednesday that concluded with investigators confiscating her work and personal laptops, her phone and her smartwatch–all seized, it now seems, on a fraudulent pretext. Since then, the man who spent his equivalent of pocket change to buy the Post in 2013 has said nothing about that in public, yet another way in which Jeff Bezos has shown himself an unworthy successor to Katharine Graham and her son Don Graham.

In addition to what you see below, I wrote a post for Patreon readers sharing bonus bits about what I learned at CES two weeks ago.

1/12/2026, FCC Unties Verizon From 60-Day Phone-Unlocking Rule, PCMag

Two days after the Federal Communications Commission granted Verizon’s wish, Verizon suffered an hours-long outage that people could work around relatively easily if their phones were unlocked to allow them to add a third-party eSIM.

1/15/2026: Wikipedia Is Now 25 Years Old [Citation Not Needed], PCMag

I had made a mental note to myself to write an essay about the free online encyclopedia hitting the quarter-century mark, but then the actual date snuck up on me. Fortunately, the lede and the headline basically wrote themselves.

1/17/2026: Donut Labs’ Solid-State Battery-Powered Motorcycle Turned Heads at CES, But Big Questions Remain, PCMag

Writing this left me feeling over my skis more than usual–I don’t cover battery technology in any great depth, this startup has disclosed almost nothing about the design of its solid-state batteries, and two outside analysts weren’t willing to assess their pitch. But reading up at length on this company and on others working on better EV batteries did make me realize one thing: There’s enough innovation happening here that we don’t need Donut’s invention to work.

1/17/2026: AI Is Still Hammering News Sites, Google Search and Social Referrals Plunge, PCMag

The brutal declines in Google search traffic reported in a study published Monday by the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism caught my eyes and those of my editors, but I also found some news value in this report’s stats about which online platforms and technologies newsroom leaders plan to emphasize or back away from.

#AI #AIOverview #BrendanCarr #ces #DonutLab #EVBattery #FCC #phoneUnlocking #SIMLock #smartphoneUnlock #solidStateBattery #verizon #Wikipedia