IA previewThe summaries generated by Google provides for certain Google research requests, will soon be able to manage “more complex subjects” and “multimodal” and “in several stages” research, including advanced mathematical questions and coding problems .
Enlarged capacities are motivated by the newly launched Gemini 2.0 modelWhat Google says should also make improvements in speed and quality of research.
A limited test of the new functionality of AI previews will start this week, with a large deployment to follow at the beginning of next year.
“Our glimpses of AI now reach 1 billion people, which allows them to entirely ask new types of questions – quickly becoming one of our most popular research features of all time,” said the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai in a blog article provided to Techcrunch. “We will continue to bring IA overviews to more countries and languages over the next year.”
The growing importance of AI in Google’s basic research product is part of the company’s efforts to prevent users from moving on to alternatives like Perplexity And Chatpt search. These so-called research engines fed by AI use AI to answer several of the traditionally sought-after questions, including those concerning mathematics and programming.
Since its launch this spring, AI’s overviews have been the subject of great controversy, becoming viral for its dubious declarations And Questionable advice (like recommend adding pizza glue). A recent report From the SE classification, a SEO platform, noted that IA’s overviews cite websites which “are not entirely reliable or based on evidence”, including obsolete studies and lists of paid products.
The main problem is that AI previews have trouble discerning, sometimes, whether it is a source of information, a fiction, a satire or a seriousness. In recent months, Google has changed the functioning of AI sees, limiting the responses linked to current events and health subjects. But the company does not pretend that it is perfect.
Be that as it may, Google says that IA’s overviews have led to an increase in research engagement, especially among people aged 18 to 24 – a key demography for the company.
Google Recently taken measures To monetize AI’s overviews by adding mobile ads for certain “relevant” requests, to the chagrin of publishers who say that the functionality is negatively their traffic. Google says he continues to take into account the concerns of publishers during his IA research experiences.
AI previews are a target In the antitrust trial of the Ministry of Justice against Google, who seeks to break what a judge has deemed an illegal search for searches. Doj is request That Google allowed the sites to withdraw from the AI previews without being penalized in the Google search results.