Google Search auto-expands some AI Overviews, burying the actual results even further. The web is still down there somewhere. Keep scrolling. (Jay Peters, The Verge)
- The change follows a pattern of Google progressively shrinking the real estate devoted to blue links in favor of AI-generated answers that keep users on Google's own pages.
- Search Engine Roundtable spotted the behavior, suggesting it is not yet a universal rollout but a test affecting a subset of queries.
- For journalists covering search, this is a useful concrete example of how interface defaults, not just algorithms, reshape who gets traffic and who does not.
