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AI Overview
Google's AI-generated answer block that appears at the top of search results for many queries, summarizing across multiple sources.
AI Overviews (formerly Search Generative Experience) is the block of synthesized text Google now shows at the top of many search results. It pulls from multiple cited sources to construct a direct answer.
For local businesses, appearing as one of the cited sources in an AI Overview is increasingly important. Citations come from pages that have specific, named, well-structured content matching the query intent.