New ways to connect to the web with AI Overviews

In May, we launched AI Overviews in Search to help people quickly find information and explore all the web has to offer. Already, people are asking longer questions, diving deeper into complex subjects and uncovering new perspectives - which means more opportunities for people to discover content from publishers, businesses and creators.

Now, we're sharing a few updates around our ongoing work to connect people to the richness of the web, introducing helpful updates for AI Overviews in Search Labs - and bringing AI Overviews to six new countries.

As we evolve the Search experience with AI Overviews, we remain focused on helping people access information and perspectives from a diverse range of sources. With AI Overviews, we're seeing that people have been visiting a greater diversity of websites for help with more complex questions. And when people click from search result pages with AI Overviews, these clicks are higher quality for websites - meaning users are more likely to spend more time on the sites they visit.

Now, we're introducing more ways to check out relevant websites while you search, with a new right-hand link display for AI Overviews on desktop - also accessible on mobile by tapping the site icons on the upper right. These updates are starting to roll out globally today for AI Overviews in all launched countries, as well as for Search Labs users in more than 120 countries and territories.

We're also currently testing the addition of links to relevant web pages directly within the text of AI Overviews (in addition to the prominent links we already show), making it even easier for people to click out and visit sites that interest them.