Google restores AI search functionality after errors and flaws
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced a generative AI feature for the company's search engine last month, he and his colleagues demonstrated the new capability with six text-based queries for the public to try .Questions included “how do I clean a fabric sofa” and “what should I use to get a coffee stain out of my carpet.” These were intended to highlight how Google's new feature, AI Overviews, could generate comprehensive and useful summaries of information on top of traditional search results.But on Friday, only one of six queries still provided an overview of the AI, according to The New York Times' tests. Instead, the functionality was noticeably less widespread. A search for “what should I use to get a coffee stain out of my carpet” now resulted in a snippet of text ...