By Katie Notopoulos
Publication Date: 2025-12-30 10:01:00
It truly brings me no joy to admit this, but now that it’s the end of 2025, I can see that Google’s AI Overviews, for as much as I goofed on them for being clumsy and bad, are having the last laugh.
This realization comes after, in 2024, I totally dunked on Google after its AI told me to use glue to help cheese stick to pizza. So, in a moment of internet infamy, I did just that: I made my glue pizza, and even ate a piece.
Now … things are different.
How Google AI got better
The other day, my editor and I were discussing the state of the AI Overviews. We thought the overviews were pretty abysmal at the start of the year — but we now admit to each other that we use them — instead of traditional search — a lot of the time these days.
Of course, the fact that people (such as myself) are willing to use the AI Overview answer in Google instead of clicking on a link and sending traffic to a website that perhaps employs humans to make that content (such as…
