Practitioners say Google AI Overviews is quietly getting very good as an answer engine
ricklamers · x · 2026-10-18
ricklamers endorses benhylak's take that people are sleeping on Google AI Overviews: it has been improving steadily and is now genuinely useful as an instant answer machine — a practitioner's ground-truth observation countering the mainstream "AI search is killing Google" narrative.
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