Google Expands AI-Powered Search Features, Worrying Digital Publishers
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Google extends pilot testing of AI-generated search results, dubbed "Search Generative Experience" (SGE), past original end date of Dec 2023
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SGE offers ChatGPT-style summaries at top of search results; can be expanded to take up whole screen
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Younger users finding SGE "especially useful"; Google expanded access to teens
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Google continues adding capabilities to SGE like notes, image generator, browsing assistant
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Digital publications concerned SGE summaries may cut into their traffic as users may not click through to original articles