How to deal with Google AI Overview answers
I don't have numbers, but my sense is that Google AI Overviews are
being ramped up again, and are showing up on lots more searches. Their
quality still ranges from awful to, at best, mediocre. I find that I'm
automatically skipping over them, because I simply can't trust any
individual AI Overview answer to be accurate, especially on important
matters.
In fact, this is my suggestion. Pretend they're not there. Skip over
them and scroll down to the blue links as if the AI Overview answers
didn't exist.
The new marching orders for deploying AI Overviews at Google appear to
be "take risks and if users are given misinformation, oh well, them's
the breaks. They'll get over it!"
The bottom line is that until such a time as Google is willing to take
public responsibility for the veracity of their AI Overview answers,
those answers should be considered untrustworthy as a whole.
Unfortunately, it's that simple.
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--Lauren--
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