Google AI Overviews cites pages that don't contain the cited info, SEO vet flags
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-10-28
Well-known SEO practitioner Lily Ray flagged a citation quality issue in Google's AI Overviews: while the feature attaches source citations to generated answers, many of the cited pages don't actually contain any information supporting the sentence they're attached to. The mismatch between citations and generated text undermines the trustworthiness of AI search results and is an ongoing accuracy concern in the SEO community.
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