{"id":89603,"date":"2025-07-24T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89603\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:10:08","slug":"google-rethinks-search-results-with-its-new-ai-curated-web-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89603\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rethinks search results with its new AI-curated \u2018Web Guide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Google launched<\/a> Web Guide, a new AI-powered search feature that \u201cgroups links in helpful ways\u201d for people who opt in to the test on Labs<\/a>. Web Guide runs on a custom version of Google\u2019s Gemini AI model to process search queries, reorganizing the traditional \u201c10 blue links\u201d by sorting results and finding related questions using generative AI.<\/p>\n

For anyone who chooses to enable Web Guide, it is currently available within the same \u201cWeb\u201d tab on Google Search that currently shows search results without including AI Overviews. It uses the same \u201cquery fanout technique\u201d as AI Mode<\/a>, allowing Gemini to break down queries and make several searches at once.<\/p>\n

When I searched for \u201chow to care for a mango tree,\u201d Google\u2019s Web Guide pulled up two relevant webpages, followed by an AI-generated summary and links listed under different categories, like \u201cMango Tree Care in Specific Climates\u201d and \u201cTroubleshooting Mango Tree Issues.\u201d Some of the links came from educational resources, like from the University of Florida, while others lead to YouTube videos, Quora, and Reddit threads. Last year, Google made a $60 million per year deal<\/a> with Reddit to use its content for AI training.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nice that Web Guide brings back some elements of traditional search, like showing links at the top of your results page instead of bombarding you with an AI Overview and YouTube videos that take up almost half the page. The AI-generated categories were somewhat helpful for tracking down specific bits of information, but the descriptions beneath each heading just seem unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Beneath \u201cComprehensive Mango Tree Care Guides,\u201d for example, Web Guide notes, \u201cThe most effective way to care for a mango tree varies slightly depending on its age, location, and specific cultivar, so it\u2019s useful to consult multiple guides for comprehensive instructions,\u201d which is a bit obvious, and probably something I could find out myself from actually clicking one of the surfaced links.<\/p>\n

You can also use Web Guide to ask more detailed or specific questions, like \u201cMy family is spread across multiple time zones. What are the best tools for staying connected and maintaining close relationships despite the distance?\u201d The AI results will attempt to address the different parts of your question.<\/p>\n

You can still switch back to regular web results, but Google is already saying it plans on bringing it to the \u201cAll\u201d tab as well. You can try out Web Guide now by toggling on the test in Search Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, Google launched Web Guide, a new AI-powered search feature that \u201cgroups links in helpful ways\u201d for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[691,2722,50,242,158,67,132,68,1940],"class_list":{"0":"post-89603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114910266943608499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}