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- Google is testing controls to seek more insights from AI overviews on mobile.
- The functionality lets you select text from an AI overview and expand on the subject, focusing on just the selected portion.
- Besides expanding with additional information, the extra controls also let you search for images related to the selected snippet.
There’s no denying that Google Search’s AI overviews are here to stay. While those short point-wise summaries, rather than traditional search results, may suffice for basic queries, Google has been testing additional functions that let you do more with AI overviews.
In late 2024, we learned that Google was experimenting with AI-generated snippets nested within AI overviews. These snippets would emerge when a portion of the text from the AI overviews was highlighted. And now, we’re seeing more evidence of that evolving with the introduction of more useful controls.