Google AI Overviews expand to more users
Google AI Overviews are now available in more countries and regions and in more languages. Google announced today at Google I/O that AI Overviews are now available in over 200 countries and territories and more than 40 different languages.
AI Overviews for more Google searchers. Google said they have expanded access to AI Overviews within Google Search to more searchers. In October, Google released them in over 100 countries and regions, now they are available in over 200 countries and regions.
Google added more support for languages including support for for Arabic, Chinese, Malay, Urdu and more.
You can see the full list of countries and territories that Google AI Overviews are available in within this help document.
Google said there are now 1.5 billion monthly users getting AI Overviews within Google Search. “We’re delivering this at the speed people expect of Google Search – Al Overviews delivers the fastest Al responses in the industry, Liz Reid, VP head of Google Search said.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as over the past week or so, we’ve seen Google testing AI Overviews in regions they were not officially supported in.
AI Overviews increase searches. Google said that AI Overviews lead to a 10% growth in the number of searchers do. “This means that once people use Al Overviews, they are coming to do more of these types of queries, and what’s particularly exciting is how this growth increases over time,” Liz Reid told us. Google said the percent increase is measured by an experiment that compares two cohorts over time. One that is shown Al Overviews and one that is not. The numbers shown compare query volumes between the two cohorts, for the subset of queries that would show Al Overviews.
Why are people searching more? Google says users want to dig deeper and interact with these AI Overviews.
Google also gave the line that search results with AI Overviews get higher quality clicks. Meaning that searchers spend more time on those websites that they click over from via AI Overviews, than they do from normal search results. Google’s Liz Reid said searchers dig in to these responses.
Gemini 2.5. Google also upgraded the model they use to generate these AI Overviews. Now AI Overviews are using a custom version of Gemini 2.5, so is AI Mode, by the way. Gemini 2.5 will also enable Google to provide answers to even harder questions, Google told us.
AI Overviews look. Here is how AI Overviews look, but I suspect most of you have seen these by now:
Why we care. Google is making it clear, AI Overviews are not going anywhere. More and more Google searchers are going to see it in more countries, more territories and more languages. While it is not supported everywhere just yet, Google does continue to expand these to more searchers.
Plus, the results should be higher quality but I am waiting to hear from the community if those results are better or not.
Dig deeper. More Google I/O news from today:
