Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. When using Google Search, you might have noticed a new option called AI ...

Third-party data strongly suggests Google has toned down Reddit’s influence on search results that use AI Overviews. This change comes from high-profile, outrageously terrible AI Overviews results ...

Google Search Console’s blind spot is costing you visibility into one of the biggest SERP changes in years. AI Overviews now appear for millions of queries, yet Search Console lumps these impressions ...

Two trends are emerging in the world of AI and search: AI platforms are sending more traffic to publishers’ sites, while Google’s AI Overviews is reducing click-throughs across more search queries.

BrightEdge’s latest research shows that Google’s AI Overviews are now appearing in ways that reflect what BrightEdge describes as “deliberate, aggressive choices” about where AI shows up and where it ...

Google search impressions are up 49% year-over-year, but click-through rates (CTR) are down 30%, according to new data from BrightEdge. For that, all credit goes to AI Overviews, Google’s AI-generated ...

Google launched AI Overviews in mid-May to all users and, following some viral mistakes, it seems the company has pulled back, as new research shows it may be appearing in merely 15% of search queries ...

Google rapidly expanded AI Overviews in search during 2025, then pulled back as they moved into commercial and navigational queries. These findings are based on a new Semrush analysis of more than 10 ...

Google’s AI Overviews have reshaped search almost overnight. For paid search marketers, the fight for above-the-fold visibility is no longer just about ad rank – it’s now a push to appear above the AI ...

AI search visibility across healthcare websites is not collapsing. It is being reclassified and redistributed across AI retrieval systems. Sites built around structured expertise, professional ...

A new Oumi analysis reveals Google's AI Overviews may produce up to 225 billion false summaries annually. Learn about the accuracy gap between Gemini 2 and Gemini 3.