Google stuffing links into AI answers draws irony: 'you mean how Google used to be?'
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-10-16
Google is adding lots of links into its AI-generated answers, promising to make it easy to find relevant sites and first-hand perspectives. SEO experts including Lily Ray point out the irony: AI search is basically recreating the link-based search engine Google used to be.
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