Screenshot of Sundar Pichai announcing AI Overviews at Google I/O
Google's AI Overviews gives an auto-generated summary of search results.
  • Google's AI Overviews have dropped off significantly in recent months, per a new study.
  • The company said in May it would scale back the feature, which was generating some odd results.
  • Google's AI Overviews have gotten shorter in length, too.

Google's AI Overviews in search results have dropped off significantly in recent months, according to a new study. The search giant is rethinking how it uses artificial intelligence in its biggest product.

Researchers at SE Ranking have been closely tracking how often Google's AI-generated responses appear in results and the sources the tool cites.