Google Chrome Will Now Summarize Entire Articles for Users with the Use of AI

According to a Google blog post, the AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) of Google will soon be able to summarize the content you're reading online. This new feature is intended to leverage SGE's existing ability to summarize search results for you, so you don't have to scroll endlessly to discover what you're searching for and take it a step further by assisting you after you've actually clicked a link.

What google has to say about this new feature?

Google says it's a new feature that will begin on as an "early test" in its Search Labs program. (You can use it if you've already enabled SGE, but if you haven't, you can enable the feature as is.) It's first available in the Google app on Android and iOS devices. The company will bring it to Chrome desktop in the coming days.

If you have access to the Google app on your mobile device, Google will pull up an AI-generated set of key points from the article when you tap the icon at the bottom of the screen. The feature is designed to work "only on articles that are freely available to the public online"; Google says it won't work on sites that publishers flag as paywalls.

Google making further improvements

Google is also making some other improvements to SGE. In SGE results for questions about things like science, economics and history, Google says you can hover over specific words to get definitions or charts about that topic. Google also makes easy to understand summaries of SGE code information.

Google announced SGE at Google I/O in May and has been improving it over the months. I don't like it, but Google is pleased with its progress. In the company's latest earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai said that user feedback "so far has been very positive" and that "over time, search will work just like that."

Examples of AI web summaries

Amazon previously said it would add AI summaries of user reviews to product pages, and Newegg has followed suit. Microsoft also uses artificial intelligence to summarize what users are saying about the app. What Google does is a bit more general, as it allows users to tap a small Create button at the bottom of the page to create an AI resume. The abstract only applies to articles freely available online, and publishers' paywalls, if any, are preserved.

Google's SGE Online also offers an "Explore on a Page" feature, where you can see responses to an article and jump to the relevant section for more information, Google said.