{"id":482879,"date":"2026-02-18T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482879\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:23:17","slug":"googles-ai-search-results-will-make-links-more-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482879\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI search results will make links more obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google says it will now display links more prominently inside its AI-powered features in Search. Robby Stein, the vice president of Google Search, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rmstein\/status\/2023865995908313531?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced on Tuesday<\/a> that a list of links will now appear inside a pop-up when you hover over the sources in AI Overviews and AI Mode on desktop, alongside a description of each linked article and accompanying images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Stein adds that Google will also show these \u201cmore descriptive and prominent link icons\u201d in its AI responses on desktop and mobile. \u201cOur testing shows this new UI is more engaging, making it easier to get to great content across the web,\u201d Stein writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google says it will now display links more prominently inside its AI-powered features in Search. Robby Stein, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62,49,48,192,44,64,61],"class_list":["post-482879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-google","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}