Since 2025, Google has been showing AI-generated summaries directly in search results.
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- The claim incorrectly states that AI-generated summaries in Google Search began in 2025, when they actually started rolling out to the general public in May 2024.
- Omissions
- The MEP may be referring to the March 2025 expansion of AI Overviews to more users or markets, but this was an expansion rather than the initial launch of the feature.
- Google's AI Overviews were preceded by the Search Generative Experience (SGE) which was available as an opt-in experiment starting in 2023.
- By 2025, the feature was already established and being expanded, not newly introduced.
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- PrimaryGoogle Blog - Generative AI in SearchAI Overviews began rolling out to everyone in the U.S. in May 2024, with more countries coming soon. The feature provides AI-generated summaries at the top of search results.
- PrimaryGoogle Blog - AI Overviews ExpansionAI Overviews expanded to more than 100 countries and territories starting in October 2024.
- SecondaryThe GuardianGoogle rolled out AI-generated, summarized search results in the US starting May 14, 2024, as AI Overviews.