What Is AI Overviews and Where Can You Use It? 204

Google also held a launch event, Google I/O, bringing a bunch of new things, including the release of ai Overviews, which is essentially a supercharged version of AI Search, featuring multi-step reasoning capabilities, planning capabilities, search results organized by artificial intelligence, and a new Google Lens video question feature.

• Multi-step reasoning capabilities

• Planning capabilities in Google Search

• AI-organized search results

• Google Lens asks questions through video

AI Overviews: Perplexity on Steroids

When you need to find information, Google will search the entire web for you, organize it, and then display it.

Multi-step reasoning capabilities

This is not a product, but a feature that runs throughout the new Google Search service. In simple terms, Google can now help you handle more complex tasks.

For example, "Find the author Da Congming of Cyber Zen, then order him a serving of Longjiang pig's trotters rice, so he can experience a man's romance." In this case, you'll see information about Cyber Zen, information about Da Congming, information about pig's trotters rice, and information on how to order pig's trotters rice for him.

Planning capabilities in Google Search

In addition to providing answers, this thing will also help you make more detailed plans. For example, searching for something like "create a 3-day meal plan" will have it gather information from across the web and generate an interactive planning page.

AI-organized search results

When you ask Google to help you create a plan, such as a dinner party plan, in addition to gathering information from across the web, the generated planning page comes with its own layout.

Multimodal Search

Your input can be not only text, but also an image plus voice.When you encounter an unfamiliar object, such as the Lightning Five-Whip, you can use video to ask Google: What is this? (A small discovery: the app used by the presenter is Google Lens),and then Google will help you organize all the relevant information.When you ask Google to help you create a plan, such as a meal plan, it will gather information from across the web and generate an interactive planning page.

When can I use it?

Newly appointed search chief Liz Reid announced at the Google I/O conference that AI Overviews is rolling out to all U.S. searchers in Google Search, and by next week, AI Overviews will be available to hundreds of millions of searchers. AI Overviews will soon launch in more countries and will be open to over 1 billion users by the end of this year.