Google is expanding AI Overviews in Search to more than 100 countries

In a blog post today, Google said it will make AI Overviews in Google Search available to users living in more than 100 countries. Google says people like AI Overviews, so the company plans to reach 1 billion users each month. Additionally, Google is adding support for more languages, meaning users in Japan can get AI-generated summaries in Japanese, for example.

If you aren’t familiar with AI Overviews by now, it’s a feature found in Google Search. Google’s Gemini AI model will generate a summary every time you search for something. This summary appears at the top of the page. Besides answering questions, it can also act as a meal planner, vacation organizer and brainstorming tool, among many other things.

This update follows several released over the last few months since the introduction of AI Overviews in May. The most recent update before this one allowed ...