Google Search, and its AI Overview function, both direct users to Reddit, blogs, and other user-generated sites at the expense of platforms that offer more general content—like legacy news sites.

Google, which has already been showing A.I.-generated summaries on its search pages for the last year, said AI Mode was a new frontier for search that would complement — but not yet replace ...

With the introduction of A.I. Mode, Google’s new search engine, the company is essentially trying to disrupt its traditional search business before upstart A.I. competitors can disrupt it.

Google’s new Preferred Sources feature in Search lets users in India choose favourite news sites, showing more stories from them in Top Stories and a dedicated section.