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The next question you ask Google could return with a detailed answer penned by artificial intelligence. The tech giant revealed plans to expand its Google Search AI Overviews product to Australia on Tuesday, testing whether the summaries it creates will encourage users to click on more links.

Google’s AI Overviews, which have been tested in the US since May, use the company’s generative AI tool Gemini to summarise search results for users.

A very small percentage of users will see the AI overviews by default in their search results on a subset of queries where we believe these overviews make the results even more helpful.

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