Countless people have taken to using Google when searching for health or wellness-related concerns over the years. Now that AI Overviews have become a regular part of the Google Search experience, results for such searches will now feature AI answers with a mix of user suggestions.
Health Questions on Google Search: AI Answers, User Suggestions
At Google’s annual health and wellness-focused event called “The Check Up,” the company shared that it is delivering massive AI updates that will also be part of the experience for users on Search.
Instead of users getting the normal AI Overviews together with the top website results, Google’s latest AI-focused approach will deliver results that mix both AI-generated answers, as well as user suggestions that it collected from websites, forums, and more.
According to Google, the new “What People Suggest” feature will be found alongside the AI Overviews results. While this also uses AI to gather information easily and categorize these suggestions, the content will still come from humans across the internet.
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Google Search’s Transformation With AI
Since last year’s I/O, Google has made it clear that its path forward will focus on AI, which will be applied across different products, including its search engine. Google has since focused on giving users AI-powered search results when using their search engine.
This was later known as the feature called “AI Overviews,” which summarizes the entire search results that Google has crawled from the web, giving users the gist of the information they are looking for. While AI Overviews still included real results from the web, Google has since experimented with the so-called “AI Mode,” which only shares AI-generated results in chatbot-answer form.
Despite these advancements, not all topics users search for will get purely AI-generated answers, as is the case with health and wellness-related searches.
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