According to a Google blog post, the AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) of Google will soon be able to summarize the content you’re reading online. This new feature is intended to leverage SGE’s existing ability to summarize search results for you so you don’t have to scroll endlessly to discover what you’re searching for and take it a step further by assisting you after you’ve actually clicked a link.
This function, which Google is dubbing “SGE while browsing,” presumably won’t be available right immediately.
In its opt-in Search Labs program, Google claims the new feature is “an early experiment” that will begin to roll out on Tuesday. (If you have previously chosen to participate in SGE, you will have access to it; otherwise, you can choose to do so separately). The Google app for Android and iOS will be the first to provide it, and the Chrome browser for desktop will follow “in the days ahead.”
If you hit an icon at the bottom of the page and have access to the Google app on a mobile device, Google will pull up a list of artificial intelligence–generated “key points” from an article. The function is intended to only operate on openly accessible content.
Google states that it won’t cooperate with websites that publishers designate as having a paywall.
Google is also enhancing SGE in a number of other ways. Google claims that you will be able to hover over certain terms in the SGE results for a search query regarding subjects like physics, economics, and history to get definitions or diagrams about a topic. The summaries of the coding information provided by SGE are now simpler to grasp thanks to Google.
SGE was introduced by Google during Google I/O in May, and since then, it has undergone improvements. Although I don’t like it, Google is happy with its development. Sundar Pichai, CEO of the firm, stated on the most recent earnings call that customer feedback “has been quite favorable thus far” and that “over Soon, this will just be the way Search functions.