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AI Overviews.
AI-written summaries Google shows above regular search results for many queries.
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AI-written summaries Google shows above regular search results for many queries. AI Overviews often answer the question outright and link to a few sources. Being one of those sources is the modern equivalent of the featured snippet.
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