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AI Overviews and your website
AI Overviews
appear in Google Search results when our systems determine that generative responses can be
especially helpful — for example, when you want to quickly understand information from a
range of sources, including information from across the web and Google's Knowledge Graph.
No action is needed for publishers to benefit from AI Overviews.
How do links appear in AI Overviews?
AI Overviews show links to resources that support the information in the snapshot, and explore the topic further.
This allows people to dig deeper and discover a diverse range of content from publishers,
creators, retailers, businesses, and more, and use the information they find to advance their tasks.
Google's systems automatically determine which links appear.
There is nothing special for creators to do to be considered other than to follow our regular
guidance for appearing in search, as covered in
Google Search Essentials.
How to prevent content from appearing in AI Overviews
AI Overviews offer a preview of a topic or query based on a variety of sources, including web sources.
As such, they are subject to Search's
preview controls.
Troubleshooting preview controls
If you implemented preview controls and you're still seeing your content appear in AI Overviews,
try the following steps:
Make sure that the preview control is correct and visible to Googlebot. To test if your implementation is
correct, use the
URL
Inspection tool to see the HTML that Googlebot received while crawling the page.
Allow time for Google to recrawl and process the change in preview controls.
Remember that crawling can take anywhere from several days to several months, depending on
how often our systems determine a page needs to be refreshed. If you've made changes, you can
request
that Google recrawl your pages.
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