‘I got the new stuff!’ are the background lyrics of the latest Google advertisement about the future of online search. ‘Overviews’ is a new feature that is gradually being rolled out to Google’s users globally. This new specialised feature makes it possible to summarise the web and show users an overview of answers to search queries. According to Liz Reid, the newly installed Head of Search at Google, ‘It can take a bunch of the hard work out of searching, so you can focus on the parts you want to do to get things done, or on the parts of exploring that you find exciting’ … (more)
Mark Fenwick, Paulius Jurcys and Valto Loikkanen, Kluwer Copyright Blog, 26 June 2024.
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