Google’s AI preview is coming to a search results page near you, whether you like it or not. The company announced Monday that it extends AI functionality to more than 100 countries around the world.

Google launched AI Overview, which uses generative AI to summarize the key points of your search topic and display that information at the top of the results page, to mixed reviews in May before expanding the program in August. Monday’s rollout sees the feature available in seven languages ​​(English, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish) for users in over 100 countries (you can find a full list of countries covered here)

AI Overview was first announced at Google I/O 2023 and was originally known as Search Generative Experience. After spending a year in the company’s experimental lab testbed, Google made Overview its default search experience in May 2024. Users were also skeptical and critical of the new system , which provided dangerous and incorrect information to users, informing them about how many stones to eat each day and would have told them to add “about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to make it extra sticky” and help keep the cheese from sliding off their pizzas.

Despite its initial validity issues, Google moved forward in Augustexpanding the Overview feature to cover six additional countries: UK, India, Japan, Indonesia, Brazil and Mexico. “With AI Overviews, we see that people visit a wider diversity of websites to get help with more complex questions,” the company wrote at the time. “And when people click on search results pages with AI previews, those clicks are of higher quality for websites, meaning users are more likely to spend more time on the sites they visit .”

In October, the program took “another big step forward.” depending on the companyintegrating paid ads into its results, and allowing users to tap into Lens and ask questions about moving objects in a given video clip. Lens not only provides links to visually similar products, but it also provides reviews of the specific product you are looking for, providing price comparisons and information on where to make the purchase.

Whether AI Overview ultimately revolutionizes search, as Google claims, or whether it becomes the next Microsoft Clippy, a feature so universally hated by its user base that we’re still talking about how bad it is more than two decades after it was removed . Office, remains to be seen.