AI Overviews
Google's AI-generated summaries shown at the top of many search results, synthesising information from multiple web pages with links to…
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AI Mode
Google's conversational search experience for complex, multi-part questions, returning a reasoned AI response with supporting links instead of a classic result list.
In full
AI Mode targets queries that would previously have required several searches — comparisons, planning, nuanced reasoning — and supports follow-up questions in context. Like AI Overviews it is grounded in Google's index and requires no special optimisation, and its impressions and clicks are reported in Search Console's generative AI performance views and within the Web search type. Because a single AI Mode session can decompose into many underlying queries, the relationship between a brand's classic rankings and its appearance there is indirect.
Example
A user asks for a two-week itinerary balancing hiking and museums; AI Mode returns a structured plan citing a national park service page and two travel publishers.
Related terms
Query fan-out
The technique in AI search of breaking one complex user question into many related sub-queries, running them in parallel, and synthesising…
Grounding
Constraining a language model's output to information retrieved from a specified source — a search index, a document set or a database —…
Generative AI performance report
Search Console views introduced in 2026 showing impressions and clicks for a site's links inside Google's generative AI features on Search…
Zero-click search
A search where the user's need is satisfied on the results page itself — by a snippet, knowledge panel, calculator or AI Overview — and no…
Where to read more
- AI Features and Your Website · Documentation · developers.google.com
- Expanding AI Overviews and Introducing AI Mode · Landmark Post · blog.google