YouTube Tests AI Overviews in Search Results

Google-owned YouTube this week said it is "experimenting" with a caller video hunt results carousel that appears aft searches for prime keywords.


According to YouTube, the video results carousel volition usage AI to item clips from videos that "will beryllium astir adjuvant for your hunt query," which fundamentally means that it volition instrumentality clips from videos and play them close successful results, truthful radical whitethorn not request to click into a video to find the accusation they're looking for.

Google uses AI overviews for Google Search, but the YouTube mentation volition differ. AI won't summarize videos, and volition simply propulsion clips from them. It is not wide the AI-selected clips volition promote users to ticker a afloat video, oregon origin less radical to prosecute with videos, but AI integration into Google Search has impacted postulation to websites.

Right now, the diagnostic is being tested with a tiny fig of YouTube Premium users for English hunt queries, and the AI-generated results are astir apt to aboveground erstwhile users hunt for accusation astir products, oregon for locations and things to bash successful those locations. Two illustration searches provided see "best sound cancelling headphones" and "museums to sojourn successful San Francisco."

YouTube has not provided details connected what the AI volition prioritize, truthful video creators whitethorn person different metric to optimize for successful the aboriginal should this functionality spot a wider rollout.
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