Google Search Tests Get An AI Explanation Selection

Dec 31, 2024 - 7:31 am 2 by
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Google Search is testing a new method to get trigger an AI Overview in Google Search. You can select text with your mouse cursor and then select the "Get an AI explanation." Oh, Google is also letting you select "Copy to clipboard."

I mean, we've seen things like this with translation and some other areas but I am not sure if I've seen this for Google AI Overviews.

This was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted some screenshots and videos on X - I cannot replicate but here is one of his screenshots:

Google Ai Explanation Hover

Here is a video:

Google Ai Explanation Hover

Here are more:

Also, a "more details" button:

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