Google had formerly launched its AI Overviews feature in over two hundred countries and territories and now has expanded that support to forty languages. First only available in the US, the tool is now expanding to the world, with millions of other users across the globe getting AI powered summaries faster than ever before. This represents a big strategic leap in Google’s transformation of its search experience.

Highlights

• Google expands AI Overviews to 200+ countries.
• Feature now supports 40 global languages.
• AI Overviews deliver quick, summary-style search results.
• Rollout follows positive feedback from U.S. users.
• Google plans more AI-powered updates later this year.

Google said the company’s commitment to build generative AI directly into Search led to the global rollout of AI Overviews. Google hopes that by providing concise, AI-powered summaries at the top of search results will serve to simplify the way users can find this info. Clearly, the company is keeping its feature set open and open to inclusive, borderless innovation, with language support for Europe, Asia and Africa.

Google says that AI overviews are meant to help increase productivity by summarizing complicated topics, that way you spend less time clicking and more time knowing. It’s been praised as helping to make search simpler — especially for users who are tracking down answers to multiple layered questions. Now, global search behavior from people speaking all manner of languages will be enhanced by that same powerful AI experience that is already a reality in the U.S.

Google plans to expand on this, refining the ability for AI Overviews to become more interactive and machine smarter for the entire set of follow up questions. We hope this will give people more intuitive and conversational search. Google is rethinking how people interact with digital content at scale with AI Overviews which is already a fixture on everyone’s search behavior.