Google is testing yet another format for its AI Overviews. This one looks like Google is grouping answers for a more generic query into multiple categories of responses. Google is placing them into these card blocks, that can either show you a new AI Overview or more search results, it seems.
Generally, Google shows AI Overviews for more longtail queries, with more than like 5 or so words. But here, the query was [iPhone benefits] and Google does not know directly how to answer it, so it is offering categories of responses.
This was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted some examples of this on X:
Here is a GIF of it in action:
Here is a static image:
This is what I see for that query (I put the second page of results on the right side):
He posted more examples of this on X, that also shows the desktop version:
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— Sachin Patel (@SachuPatel53124) November 23, 2024
Here is the desktop version. pic.twitter.com/U9uOeSuPw9
Interesting take Google.
Forum discussion at X.
