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That is not when they launched their AI. A link in that very link of yours goes to an article from August 2024 about Google’s AI overview being updated then:
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/search-engines/google-updates-ai-overviews-to-make-it-easier-to-check-its-accurate
It came out loooooong before March 2025 lol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Overviews
Then there was months of crap like this:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/aug/05/are-google-meta-ai-hiding-trump-information-heres/
Where “bugs” in meta, Google, etcs products all just so happened to not autocomplete for trump, pretended the assassination attempt was “misinformation”, returned pro Harris results if you searched for trump, and so on.
AI Overviews is content taken from existing sites, AI Mode is content generate entirely by an LLM model (which article in this post talks about). PolitiFact in reference to Google talks about autofill search feature which predates "AI" since it was released in 2004.
If you want people to take your aguments seriously, don't mistort the facts to get your point across. Maybe Google fucked with their search algorithm or modified the weights to prefer some sources over others in the AI Overviews, but they couldn't fuck with AI Mode since it didn't exist then.
You completely miss the point. Google have a history of making their AI “accidentally” hide information and give biased results. It doesn’t matter what name the feature is called, that’s irrelevant.
Also where do you think AI overview and the LLM it works in got its content you peanut? 🤣
AI overview and AI mode are both Gemini.