Google AI Overviews In Card/Block Format

Google is testing yet another format for its AI Overviews. This one looks like Google is grouping answers for a more generic query into multiple categories of responses. Google is placing them into these card blocks, that can either show you a new AI Overview or more search results, it seems.

Generally, Google shows AI Overviews for more longtail queries, with more than like 5 or so words. But here, the query was [iPhone benefits] and Google does not know directly how to answer it, so it is offering categories of responses.

This was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted some examples of this on X:

Here is a GIF of it in action:

Here is a static image:

This is what I see for that query (I put the second page of results on the right side):

He posted more examples of this on X, that also shows the desktop version:

@rustybrick @brodieseo @gaganghotra_
Here is the desktop version. pic.twitter.com/U9uOeSuPw9

— Sachin Patel (@SachuPatel53124) November 23, 2024

Interesting take Google.

Forum discussion at X.