Google's destruction of its core product continues with AI overviews launching in Australia

Just switch to DuckDuckGo already.

A screenshot of Google's AI overview feature on a mobile device.

We've known it was coming, but today Google announced it had switched on AI overviews for search results in Australia.

Despite example after example of terrible results from AI summaries, Google has doubled down on its effort to make its core search product emphatically worse. Not just for customers, either, but for the small businesses that have relied on search traffic to succeed.

In its announcement post, Google claims the opposite, of course.