Google's AI-driven summary service, which gives an easy-to-understand overview of search results, finally supports Japanese



The 'AI Summary' feature, which uses AI to support your search experience on Google Search, is now available in Japanese. In addition, new features have been added to the 'AI Summary' feature.

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In May 2024, Google will implement the ' AI Summary ' feature, which will provide AI-generated summaries on the search results page of Google Search. This feature will enable users to find information quickly and explore any information on the Internet. Users are already using 'AI Summary' to ask long questions, dig deeper into complex topics, and discover new perspectives. Google explained the update information for this 'AI Summary' on its blog.

◆Easier access to related websites
By implementing the 'AI Summary' feature, Google is evolving the search experience and allowing users to access information from a variety of sources. It has also become clear that the advent of 'AI Summary' has led users to access a wider variety of websites.

On desktop Google Search, we're adding new links to the right of the AI summary to make it easier for users to check out related websites while searching. On mobile Google Search, users can visit related websites by tapping on the site icon in the top right. Google is also testing adding links to related websites directly within the text of the AI summary, making it even easier for users to click through to sites of interest.

The image below shows the 'AI summary' of the mobile version of Google Search. You can access related sites from the '+9' in the upper right corner, and the blue underlined parts are links to related sites embedded directly in the AI summary text.



These updates will be rolling out to all countries and regions where AI-powered summaries are available, as well as to

Search Labs users.

◆New features added to Search Labs' 'AI Overview'
You can access the latest AI features in a test run by enabling ' AI summaries and more ' in Search Labs, where you can test new features being developed by Google. Two new features are available in Search Labs. The first is the 'Save' feature, which allows you to save a specific 'AI summary' and refer to it later. You can check the saved AI summary at any time from the saved items .



Another new feature is the ability to simplify the language in some AI summaries with just one tap, which can be helpful if you want to more easily understand information on an unfamiliar topic.

At the time of writing, these features are only available for English queries.

Expanding AI-powered overviews to more locations around the world
In addition, Google announced that it will offer 'AI-driven summaries' in six new countries: the UK, India, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. Google explains that 'AI-driven summaries are rooted in Google's core quality and safety systems, which have been refined over decades to provide reliable, high-quality information.'

In addition, Google uses the same tools to collect the data used in the 'AI summary' as it does to collect the information displayed on the search results page. Therefore, if you block Google's crawlers to prevent your website from being included in Google's 'AI summary,' your website will not appear in Google search results, which has been criticized.

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