Google’s AI Overviews reach over 2 billion monthly users
Google’s AI Overviews — those AI-generative summaries that sit above traditional search results — now reach over 2 billion users every month, up from 1.5 billion just last quarter. It’s the latest sign of how quickly Google is redrawing the map of online discovery — and with it, the economics of who gets traffic and who gets paid.
First launched in May 2023, the feature became broadly available to U.S. users a year later. Since then, it’s been expanding globally — and fast.
“AI overviews now has over 2 billion monthly users across more than 200 countries and territories and 40 languages,” said Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the company’s earnings call on Wednesday (July 23).
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