{"id":225348,"date":"2024-05-29T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/google-ai-overviews-can-disastrous-new-search-tool-be-fixed\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:31","slug":"google-ai-overviews-can-disastrous-new-search-tool-be-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/google-ai-overviews-can-disastrous-new-search-tool-be-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Overviews: Can disastrous new search tool be fixed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/29131804\/SEI_206560751.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2433438 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"901\" data-credit=\"GLENN CHAPMAN\/AFP via Getty Images\" data-caption=\"Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced its AI Overviews tool at a conference in Mountain View, California\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced its AI Overviews tool at a conference in Mountain View, California<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">GLENN CHAPMAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Google is attempting to transform the way we search the internet, but so far it isn\u2019t going very well. Rather than simply providing links to other websites, Google\u2019s new AI Overviews tool attempts to summarise information, with mixed success \u2013 reports of people being told to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd11gzejgz4o\">glue cheese to pizza or eat rocks<\/a> have gone viral in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is whether Google can fix this problem it has introduced to its core\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2433133-can-google-fix-its-disastrous-new-ai-search-tool\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced its AI Overviews tool at a conference in Mountain View, California GLENN CHAPMAN\/AFP via Getty Images Google is attempting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}