Google says its generative Search features can identify additional supporting webpages, enabling a wider and more diverse set of helpful links than classic web search.

Sources

• AI features and your website | Google Search Central

  Google (Search Central documentation) · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “identify more supporting web pages, allowing us to display a wider and more diverse set of helpful links” — Section: How AI features work in Search, paragraph on query fan-out

  “than with a classic web search” — Same paragraph, comparative clause and page footer

• Measuring Google AI Overviews: Activation, Source Quality, Claim Fidelity, and Publisher Impact

  Haofei Xu, Umar Iqbal, Jacob M. Montgomery · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “29.8% of AIO reference domains do not appear anywhere on the corresponding first page” — lines 310-313

• Google Releases Documents On Using AI Content & AI Search Features

  Search Engine Roundtable · retrieved 2026-08-18

  “Google has published two new help documents on the topic of AI” — Article lede (May 21, 2025)