Google AI Overviews Expands to India, Bringing New Features and Enhancements

As part of its ongoing effort to rethink search using generative AI, Google has taken a giant leap forward by extending its AI-powered Search Overviews to six additional countries, including India. The goal of this feature is to improve the user experience and expose individuals to other viewpoints and knowledge by providing brief explanations of complicated subjects.

Using generative AI, AI Overviews synthesise data from multiple sources and display it in an approachable manner; they were introduced in Search Labs last year. This facilitates the rapid understanding of difficult concepts, the investigation of other points of view, and the exploration of particular areas of interest.

Google is expanding AI Overviews to other countries after receiving strong feedback from consumers in the US and Search Labs worldwide. These countries include Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, India, and the UK. Every country will have local language support for this function.

What Google is Offering to India?

Both English and Hindi versions of AI Overviews will be made accessible in India, and they will include features that are tailored to the needs of Indian users. A number of the most notable features are available, including the ability to switch between English and Hindi results with ease, the ability to listen to responses from AI Overviews with only a push of the 'Listen' button, and many others.

Google has reaffirmed its commitment to connecting consumers with a wide variety of sources. The purpose of AI Overviews is to inspire users to explore and interact with the internet, hence generating higher-quality traffic for businesses and publishers.

In a blog post, Hema Budaraju, Senior Director of Product, Search (AI) Generative Experiences, Google, announced that the company is introducing popular features that were well-received during their Search Labs experiment: the ability to easily switch between English and Hindi results using a language toggle button and the ability to listen to responses with Text-To-Speech by tapping the 'Listen' button.

According to Budaraju, the expansion will be introduced slightly over the period of a few weeks.

Google is also launching a new right-hand link display for AI Overviews on desktop, which can be accessed on mobile by pressing the site icons on the upper right. This is all part of an effort to help consumers navigate more relevant websites and discover what they need.

Controversy Regarding AI Overview

Google had to limit the AI-generated feature's use just fifteen days after it debuted due to user complaints that the responses were harmful and unreliable. The AI was found to be recommending bizarre things to users, such as swallowing a small pebble with their vitamins, drinking urine to pass a kidney stone, fixing pizza cheese with Elmer's glue, and many more.

How Does Generative AI Search Work?

Generative AI search would certainly revolutionize web search, but what matters most is accurate and unbiased AI, as the results can only be as good as the training data set.

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