# AI Overviews

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: AI Overview, Google AI Overviews, Google AI overview, SGE

AI-written [summaries](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/secondary-source) that [Google](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/google) Search shows at the top of some results, with links to the pages they draw on. They change how many people click through to websites.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) searches for her product category and sees that the AI Overview cites a competitor's blog post.

Official site: <https://search.google/ways-to-search/ai-overviews/>

## Connects to (4)

- [LLM](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/llm): Large language model.
- [Google](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/google): The company behind Google Search, Gemini and Google Cloud.
- [Perplexity](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/perplexity): An AI search tool.
- [Hallucination](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hallucination): When an AI model states something false or invented as though it were true.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-overviews