{"slug": "google-ai-overviews", "name": "Google AI Overviews", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI tools and apps", "description": "", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 28, "warners": 20, "score": -12.569, "rising": 1.02, "first": "2025-12-08", "latest": "2026-10-30", "why": "Google already has AI overviews which I use instead of polluting my ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chats.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 20}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Google already has AI overviews which I use instead of polluting my ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chats.", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Google AI Overviews", "Google AI Overview"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 793944624, "item_id": 49621539, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621539", "by": "dyauspitr", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use that google AI overview a lot", "excerpt": "I use that google AI overview a lot but I\u2019m still using ChatGPT for 80% of my queries now.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent"}, {"id": 787582976, "item_id": 49223936, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223936", "by": "satvikpendem", "date": "2026-08-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Google already has AI overviews which I use instead of polluting my ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chats.", "excerpt": "Google already has AI overviews which I use instead of polluting my ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chats.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"}, {"id": 772266240, "item_id": 48266640, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266640", "by": "Bombthecat", "date": "2026-05-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As a user: I love it!", "excerpt": "As a user: I love it! As a former blogger: I hate it. But I knew years ago where things were heading and stopped. No point in blogging/ writing etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"}, {"id": 754979904, "item_id": 47186244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186244", "by": "bawolff", "date": "2026-02-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "recently its like a switch flipped and im finding them actually useful.", "excerpt": "I used to hate the google AI summaries, but recently its like a switch flipped and im finding them actually useful. Especially when my search query is looking up something basic from the docs (like say library function name or argument order), it really just answers what i want. Of course a big part of the problem is that google is inundated with seo spam when it comes to programming topics .", "context": "", "use_case": "quick programming doc lookups", "switched_from": "", "story": "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"}, {"id": 743071168, "item_id": 46441948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46441948", "by": "RandallBrown", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Google's AI overviews are pretty much the only way that I use AI.", "excerpt": "I do understand why it makes it very hard to compare but it's certainly not meaningless. Google's AI overviews are pretty much the only way that I use AI.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 804807793, "item_id": 50300487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300487", "by": "ashdksnndck", "date": "2026-10-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "But it\u2019s so unreliable.", "excerpt": "If I have a really straightforward question and I want a fast answer I\u2019ll sometimes Google search for the AI overview. But it\u2019s so unreliable. I use opus 5.5 for any question that Google could plausibly screw up. This is a huge product failure on Google\u2019s part, IMO. I\u2019m a $20/paid user for both Gemini and Claude. It\u2019s nuts that with Google\u2019s massive head-start in AI (and apparently they still are capable of making a ", "context": "", "use_case": "quick search answers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet\u2019s revenue"}, {"id": 797951088, "item_id": 49871943, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871943", "by": "AlienRobot", "date": "2026-09-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google's AI is really intrusive.", "excerpt": "Google's AI is really intrusive. That's the only way to describe it. I searched for \"weather <my town>\", I get an AI saying the current weather is 33C. It says monday will be 41C. Like I live in the desert. Google's actual weather widget, which appears BELOW the weather overview and gathers data from accurate sources, says 26C. How hard is it to block the \"weather\" keyword from triggering the AI overview when you alr", "context": "", "use_case": "search answers", "switched_from": "", "story": "When did Google get so weird?"}, {"id": 797950641, "item_id": 49871915, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871915", "by": "dhosek", "date": "2026-09-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google now gives me an AI-generated answer that is wrong as often as not.", "excerpt": "I used to be able to type, e.g., \u201cdays since 24 June 2024\u201d into a browser window and get an answer. At some point, Duck Duck Go stopped giving a response, so I turned that into \u201cdays since 24 June 2024 !g\u201d to get it from Google. In the last couple-three weeks, Google now gives me an AI-generated answer that is wrong as often as not. Something else I\u2019ve noticed is that occasionally I\u2019ll do random queries in Claude (si", "context": "", "use_case": "search answers", "switched_from": "", "story": "When did Google get so weird?"}, {"id": 797929296, "item_id": 49870581, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870581", "by": "solarkraft", "date": "2026-09-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's a whole meme category to make the AI overview help with absurd scenarios", "excerpt": "It's a whole meme category to make the AI overview help with absurd scenarios: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/where-is-mama-ai-overviews", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "When did Google get so weird?"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["search answers", "quick search answers", "quick programming doc lookups", "ai search summaries", "search results"], "compared": [{"slug": "chatgpt", "name": "ChatGPT", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "google-ai-mode", "name": "Google AI Mode", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gemini", "name": "Gemini", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367", "title": "When did Google get so weird?", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266051", "title": "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438390", "title": "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152838", "title": "The \"confident idiot\" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291945", "title": "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet\u2019s revenue", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615537", "title": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"warn": 5, "recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"warn": 2}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 4, "recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"warn": 2}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 3}, "2026-10": {"warn": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 804807793, "item_id": 50300487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300487", "by": "ashdksnndck", "date": "2026-10-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "But it\u2019s so unreliable.", "excerpt": "If I have a really straightforward question and I want a fast answer I\u2019ll sometimes Google search for the AI overview. But it\u2019s so unreliable. I use opus 5.5 for any question that Google could plausibly screw up. This is a huge product failure on Google\u2019s part, IMO. I\u2019m a $20/paid user for both Gemini and Claude. It\u2019s nuts that with Google\u2019s massive head-start in AI (and apparently they still are capable of making a ", "context": "", "use_case": "quick search answers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet\u2019s revenue"}, {"id": 797951088, "item_id": 49871943, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871943", "by": "AlienRobot", "date": "2026-09-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google's AI is really intrusive.", "excerpt": "Google's AI is really intrusive. That's the only way to describe it. I searched for \"weather <my town>\", I get an AI saying the current weather is 33C. It says monday will be 41C. Like I live in the desert. Google's actual weather widget, which appears BELOW the weather overview and gathers data from accurate sources, says 26C. How hard is it to block the \"weather\" keyword from triggering the AI overview when you alr", "context": "", "use_case": "search answers", "switched_from": "", "story": "When did Google get so weird?"}, {"id": 797950641, "item_id": 49871915, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871915", "by": "dhosek", "date": "2026-09-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google now gives me an AI-generated answer that is wrong as often as not.", "excerpt": "I used to be able to type, e.g., \u201cdays since 24 June 2024\u201d into a browser window and get an answer. At some point, Duck Duck Go stopped giving a response, so I turned that into \u201cdays since 24 June 2024 !g\u201d to get it from Google. In the last couple-three weeks, Google now gives me an AI-generated answer that is wrong as often as not. Something else I\u2019ve noticed is that occasionally I\u2019ll do random queries in Claude (si", "context": "", "use_case": "search answers", "switched_from": "", "story": "When did Google get so weird?"}, {"id": 797929296, "item_id": 49870581, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870581", "by": "solarkraft", "date": "2026-09-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's a whole meme category to make the AI overview help with absurd scenarios", "excerpt": "It's a whole meme category to make the AI overview help with absurd scenarios: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/where-is-mama-ai-overviews", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "When did Google get so weird?"}, {"id": 793944624, "item_id": 49621539, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621539", "by": "dyauspitr", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use that google AI overview a lot", "excerpt": "I use that google AI overview a lot but I\u2019m still using ChatGPT for 80% of my queries now.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent"}, {"id": 787582976, "item_id": 49223936, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223936", "by": "satvikpendem", "date": "2026-08-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Google already has AI overviews which I use instead of polluting my ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chats.", "excerpt": "Google already has AI overviews which I use instead of polluting my ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chats.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"}, {"id": 785193696, "item_id": 49074606, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074606", "by": "Bitu79", "date": "2026-07-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/google-steals-even-deleted-data/175522 I can prove that my posts were deleted 3\u20134 hours earlier, and I can also prove that afterwards Google\u2019s AI Overview still found them cached. This puts Google in a very bad legal position, because the system logs and the Wayback snapshot together show that they stored and processed deleted data without any lawful basis. In this post you can find th", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google steals even deleted data"}, {"id": 781044400, "item_id": 48815275, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815275", "by": "nicbou", "date": "2026-07-07", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "LLMs and AI overviews are wrecking me", "excerpt": "This is happening to my website. It is locally famous and beloved. I do not sell nonsense or pester users and every wrote is written by a human. Now traffic is down 75% from two years ago. LLMs and AI overviews are wrecking me. https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/death-by-ai", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs?"}, {"id": 779430864, "item_id": 48714429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714429", "by": "derektank", "date": "2026-06-28", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams", "excerpt": "For actions taken by an AI agent, such as the Air Canada case where it offered discounts, or in the case of an AI agent producing faulty code, this is obviously true. Hold the company to account. That being said, I am concerned about holding AI text output to higher standards than that to which we hold human beings, which I think is happening in the German case. As presented in the article linked by Schneier, \u201cGoogle", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI and Liability"}, {"id": 776531984, "item_id": 48533249, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533249", "by": "inigyou", "date": "2026-06-14", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google just lost a lawsuit for citing sources and then displaying information that didn't occur in the sources.", "excerpt": "Google just lost a lawsuit for citing sources and then displaying information that didn't occur in the sources. https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"}, {"id": 774121136, "item_id": 48382571, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382571", "by": "todd-davies", "date": "2026-06-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "it's not typically (anywhere near as) high as it would have been", "excerpt": "Correct, the click through from AI Overview is better than nothing, but it's not typically (anywhere near as) high as it would have been if the website was shown in the results without AI Overview at all. Furthermore, opting out of AI Overview means that _other_ websites will be used for its grounding. Those competing websites will be cited and receive some citation traffic instead. So there's really very little ince", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Publishers in UK can opt out of Google AI search results"}, {"id": 772470386, "item_id": 48279399, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279399", "by": "simianwords", "date": "2026-05-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "If your fundamental problem is the accuracy of ai overview I\u2019m with you.", "excerpt": "> 1. A search result\u2019s accuracy is attributed to the source, whereas an LLM\u2019s summary is attributed to the LLM\u2014especially in the cases where it \u201ccites\u201d sources which don\u2019t make the claims it emitted. This makes no sense. Don\u2019t ask the llm for summary. Ask it for the links directly. In what way are they different? ChatGPT is a superset of a search engine. Here\u2019s an example of me using it: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a1", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"}, {"id": 772314512, "item_id": 48269657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269657", "by": "nunez", "date": "2026-05-25", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "My problem with the AI Overview feature is that it provides what you're looking for at the expense of everyone who provided the data", "excerpt": "My problem with the AI Overview feature is that it provides what you're looking for at the expense of everyone who provided the data to make that functionality possible. Website owners losing traffic to the AI Overview feature is well-documented and has been discussed extensively here. This reality begets a few questions: ----------------- What happens when it no longer becomes profitable for anyone to share knowledg", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"}, {"id": 772266240, "item_id": 48266640, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266640", "by": "Bombthecat", "date": "2026-05-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As a user: I love it!", "excerpt": "As a user: I love it! As a former blogger: I hate it. But I knew years ago where things were heading and stopped. No point in blogging/ writing etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"}, {"id": 771395632, "item_id": 48212227, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212227", "by": "Animats", "date": "2026-05-20", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google reply is: \"Yes, BlueCruise is available for the Ford Bronco!", "excerpt": "> > But it is another good example that \"AI\" is just glorified search and there is not reasoning or thinking going on behind the covers. There is false decisiveness. Ask Google: \"Is Blue Cruise available for the Ford Bronco?\" (Blue Cruise is Ford's self-driving assistance system.) Google reply is: \"Yes, BlueCruise is available for the Ford Bronco! Ford expanded its hands-free highway driving technology to include the", "context": "", "use_case": "Search answers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"}, {"id": 771155744, "item_id": 48197234, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197234", "by": "adithyareddy", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the AI overview is definitely worse", "excerpt": "I agree, the AI overview is definitely worse. I'm talking specifically about the AI mode search (at https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11). The AI overview seems to be summarizing the search results that were returned for your query already, while AI mode seems like it's doing its own searches based on your query. I would definitely give it a shot if you haven't tried it before.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google I/O"}, {"id": 768666320, "item_id": 48041645, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041645", "by": "nerdsniper", "date": "2026-05-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "For defamatory statements about public figures, \"actual malice\" is a necessary component of defamation. For private individuals, plaintiffs just have to prove \"negligence\", that Google didn't act with reasonable care before publishing. It's unclear whether courts would find negligence, but a decent lawyer would argue something like: \"By explicitly stating in their disclaimer that Google knows some of the information ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview claimed he was a sex offender"}, {"id": 762920752, "item_id": 47682547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682547", "by": "iainctduncan", "date": "2026-04-07", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The google overview had the decimal spot in the wrong place.... confusing a lethal amount for a trivial amount.", "excerpt": "I recently searched for information on a potential pet poisoning. The google overview had the decimal spot in the wrong place.... confusing a lethal amount for a trivial amount. My pet was fine, but had it actually eaten more, and had I used the google answer as my yardstick, it could have not been. Worst piece of enshitification in my daily life.", "context": "", "use_case": "search answers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tells lies per hour"}, {"id": 754979904, "item_id": 47186244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186244", "by": "bawolff", "date": "2026-02-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "recently its like a switch flipped and im finding them actually useful.", "excerpt": "I used to hate the google AI summaries, but recently its like a switch flipped and im finding them actually useful. Especially when my search query is looking up something basic from the docs (like say library function name or argument order), it really just answers what i want. Of course a big part of the problem is that google is inundated with seo spam when it comes to programming topics .", "context": "", "use_case": "quick programming doc lookups", "switched_from": "", "story": "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"}, {"id": 752709120, "item_id": 47044320, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044320", "by": "yalok", "date": "2026-02-16", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "for Google AI Overview (not sure which Gemini model is used for it", "excerpt": "for Google AI Overview (not sure which Gemini model is used for it, must be something smaller than regular model), looks like search/RAG helps it get it right - since it relies on LinkedIn and Hacker News (!) posts to respond correctly... as of Feb 16, 2026: ==== Drive the car. While 50 meters is a very short distance, the car must be present at the car wash to be cleaned, according to LinkedIn users [1]. Walking wou", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"}, {"id": 747601312, "item_id": 46725082, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725082", "by": "gowld", "date": "2026-01-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "AI Overview: Based on the research,", "excerpt": "I searched Google for one of the hallucinations: [N. Flammarion. Chen \"sam generalizes\"] AI Overview: Based on the research, [Chen and N. Flammarion (2022)](https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/) investigate why Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) generalizes better than SGD, focusing on optimization perspectives The link is a link to the OP web page calling the \"research\" a hallucination.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"}, {"id": 745421682, "item_id": 46588855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588855", "by": "simonw", "date": "2026-01-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "regular Google's \"AI overviews\" which are still mostly trash", "excerpt": "LLMs got good at search last year. You need to use the right ones though - ChatGPT Thinking mode and Google AI mode (that's https://www.google.com/ai - which is NOT the same as regular Google's \"AI overviews\" which are still mostly trash) are both excellent. I've been tracking advances in AI assisted search here - https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-search/ - in particular: - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"}, {"id": 743076866, "item_id": 46442304, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442304", "by": "famouswaffles", "date": "2025-12-31", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "AI overviews only handles (rather poorly in my opinion) a small, limited part", "excerpt": "I mean we're all talking about how Google is 'catching up' and 'taking over' Open AI right ? In that case, it genuinely is meaningless. AI Overviews, even if it had the usage OP assumes, is not a threat to Open AI or chatGPT. People use chatGPT for a lot of different things, and AI overviews only handles (rather poorly in my opinion) a small, limited part of the kind of things it gets used for. I use AI mode a lot. I", "context": "", "use_case": "AI search summaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"}, {"id": 743071168, "item_id": 46441948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46441948", "by": "RandallBrown", "date": "2025-12-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Google's AI overviews are pretty much the only way that I use AI.", "excerpt": "I do understand why it makes it very hard to compare but it's certainly not meaningless. Google's AI overviews are pretty much the only way that I use AI.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"}, {"id": 740229376, "item_id": 46264336, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264336", "by": "dahart", "date": "2025-12-14", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google\u2019s AI answer confidently starts with the word \u201cYes\u201d, but fails to back it up with scientific references.", "excerpt": "Quick google search\u2026 from Popular Science: \u201cAmong the 14 studies reviewed, five supported the idea, eight contradicted it, and one ended with mixed results.\u201d They talk about a few studies with positive results, but then share this: \u201cnot every study shows positive effects. One 2023 study of 1,000 people found that listening to binaural beats at home while taking a test reduced their performance, while silence or liste", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?"}, {"id": 739869776, "item_id": 46241861, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241861", "by": "firefoxd", "date": "2025-12-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Ai overview: my page impressions were high, my ranking was high, but click through took a dive.", "excerpt": "Traffic to my blog plummeted this year and you can never be entirely sure how it happened. But here are two culprits i identified. 1. Ai overview: my page impressions were high, my ranking was high, but click through took a dive. People read the generated text and move along without ever clicking. 2. You are now a spammer. Around August, traffic took a second plunge. In my logs, I noticed these weird queries in my se", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why"}, {"id": 739179936, "item_id": 46198746, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198746", "by": "djeastm", "date": "2025-12-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I find myself skipping the AI overview like I used to skip over \"Sponsored\" results", "excerpt": "I find myself skipping the AI overview like I used to skip over \"Sponsored\" results back in the day, looking for a trustworthy domain name.", "context": "", "use_case": "search results", "switched_from": "", "story": "The \"confident idiot\" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"}, {"id": 739093456, "item_id": 46193341, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193341", "by": "thaumasiotes", "date": "2025-12-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "You might notice that the AI overview got the link, the date, the title, the appearing characters, the theme, and the dialog wrong.", "excerpt": "If you want to see how well text generation works on unrehearsed questions, you can ask about what happens in a comic strip. I found commentary about searching Google for \"dark legacy comics who wants some bamboo\", and posted results for that search on HN in response to a comment saying \"I work at Google on the 'AI Mode' search option, check it out!\" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609275 ) And... a few days", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The \"confident idiot\" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"}]}