Just recently, Google introduced several new features to its AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE). The features are SGE while browsing, definition overlays in the SGE responses, color-coded with syntax highlighting, and other coding improvements within the SGE answers.
Here’s what Google had to say about the new features, “Today, we’re sharing a few more upgrades to SGE to help you better learn and make sense of information on the web: whether it’s deepening your understanding of complicated concepts, boosting your coding skills or tracking down details within a complex topic.”
The SGE While Browsing Feature
You can now use Google’s SGE while browsing, whether it’s on Chrome on your desktop or the Google app on iOS and Android devices. As you browse a webpage, you have the option to prompt Google SGE to extract key insights from the webpage. Subsequently, Google SGE will provide you with a summary of the webpage you’re exploring.
According to Google, this feature only works on “some web pages,” implying that this feature might not work across all online content. Google also noted, “You can tap to see an AI-generated list of the key points an article covers, with links that will take you straight to what you’re looking for directly on the page.”
Google will also display an “Explore on page,” which lets you view queries the article addresses and swiftly navigate to the pertinent section for more in-depth learning.
It’s worth noting that Google’s SGE while browsing feature isn’t automated. Therefore, users need to specifically ask SGE to summarize the page. Otherwise, the summarization won’t happen automatically.
Paywalled Structured Data: If a page is protected by a paywall and uses the paywalled structured data, it’s important to note that Google SGE while browsing won’t work.
Alternative Ways to Out-put: According to Google, there’s currently no specific meta tag to instruct Google SGE while browsing not to create summaries of your webpage content.
Utilizing paywall structured data can prevent Google SGE while browsing from summarizing content. However, if you don’t use such data, there is currently no alternative approach to prevent SGE while browsing from generating summaries.
Indexed: For SGE while browsing to function, a page must be present in the Google index. Consequently, if you block a page from being indexed, you’ll automatically prevent the Google SGE while browsing feature from working. This also implies that your page won’t be included in Google Search results.
The key points are created on the basis of the most recent version of the web page that Google has indexed. They’re not necessarily created in real time based on what the web page contains at the time that you are using this feature.
SGE AI-generated Answer Definitions
Google is now displaying for select words interactive definitions incorporated into SGE AI-generated answers. This is similar to what Google has shown in contextual links for featured snippets.
According to Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, SGE is using the same technology that featured snippets use for this functionality.
Google said, “You’ll be able to hover over certain words to preview definitions and see related diagrams or images on the topic.” Google also added that, “These work for various topics or questions related to STEM, economics, history and more.”
The “Tell me more about[topic]” bubble will take users to SGE’s conversation mode, where they can see more information about the topic that is referenced.
Enhancements to coding within SGE
SGE is also enhancing how it displays coding in the answers generated with color syntax in code examples. Here’s what Google had to say, ““Segments of code in overviews will now be color-coded with syntax highlighting, so it’s faster and easier to identify elements like keywords, comments and strings, helping you better digest the code you see at a glance.”
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