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Google acknowledged the "odd and erroneous overviews" and announced updates to the product in a blog post in late May.3 min read Last
Updated : Aug 15 2024 | 9:51 PM IST
Google parent Alphabet said on Thursday it was expanding its AI-generated summaries for search queries
Overviews - which are displayed atop a search results page before traditional links to the Web - available to all US users in May after
circulated across the internet, such as a pizza recipe that listed glue as an ingredient and an answer wrongly stating that former US
internally, which showed that users with access to the feature reported higher levels of satisfaction and searched for longer, more specific
updates come amid concerns the media industry has been voicing for more than a year about the possibility that the AI-generated search
feature could cost media companies referral traffic to their sites
an illegal monopoly on search, clearing the way for a trial that could force the breakup of Alphabet
AI advances from rivals like Microsoft-backed OpenAI could pose an even bigger threat.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have
been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)First Published: Aug 15 2024
