Google Expands AI Overviews to More Countries and Languages

Google announced this Thursday that the AI-powered search feature AI Overviews will be extended to more countries and in more languages in the next few weeks. The company also issued new updates for the search tool.

According to the document shared by the tech giant on its site, the expansion of AI Overviews will begin in six countries and it will consider local languages. The company also announced new features that users registered in the Search Labs program for testing experiments will be able to try.

“After extensive testing and positive feedback, including in the U.S. and Search Labs globally, we’re bringing the helpfulness of AI Overviews to six new countries: United Kingdom, India, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil – along with local language support in each country,” states the announcement.

AI Overviews was launched in May in the United States only and has raised multiple concerns, from how it will affect traffic on websites to the relevance of the results. The AI-powered feature gained an embarrassing reputation among users just a few weeks after it was deployed because it kept giving users inaccurate and absurd information to users.

However, Google highlighted in the update that it has improved its feature and that the new expansion is focused “on maintaining Search’s high bar for information quality.”

Along with the expansion, selected users who have joined the Search Labs programs—across 120 countries—will be able to test a new icon and the inclusion of links to relevant pages so that users can keep reading more information about the topics they want to learn. These new updates come with a different look on the AI Overviews results and as a part of the solution to address concerns regarding the decrease in traffic to websites.

Those in the U.S. will be able to try a new feature to save AI Overview results during searches and explore a new “interests” page.

Google also recently announced other AI features for its Gemini models and the new Pixel 9 devices.