Starting today, Google Search is going to feel a lot less like the search engine that you currently know and use, and more like the kinds of AI-centric platforms that are exploding around the web. Google Search head Liz Reid announced today that tons of new AI features are coming to Google's lucrative search engine, including AI Overviews -- Google-produced summarize of your search queries, de-emphasizing the classic list of blue links. These AI Overviews are rolling out in the US starting today, and coming to more than 1 billion people by year's end. What this means, specifically, is that Google will start automatically answering certain search queries in the US for everyone in the US. This process will begin over the coming days.  https://twitter.com/Google/status/1790438383128342722 Google describes this as Search "doing the Googling for you." At the same time, this is the beginning of a nightmare scenario for publishers, which will find their own links that Google Search surfaces pushed farther down the results page. If Google answers a query automatically, in other words, there would presumably be no need to scroll down the page and click a publisher's link. This has come as Google Search's ongoing updates have proven increasingly devastating for publishers, while rewarding sites that don't need the help from Google but get it anyway (Reddit, Quora, and Forbes). Don't Miss: Google is wading into EU politics, when it ought to focus on fixing its decaying search engine The post Google just beefed up Search with a ton of new AI features appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $179 AirPods Pro 2, $599 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano laptop, COSORI air fryers, Bose sale, more Best Apple Watch deals for April 2024 Today’s deals: $50 off new Beats Solo 4, $249 iPad 9th-Gen, $19 Roku Express, $180 ASUS laptop, more Today’s deals: $179 AirPods Pro 2, Mattel toys, Kindles, Fitbit sale, $12.50 Matter smart plugs, more