Google launches more visible links in AI Overviews and AI Mode

Google is rolling out new more visibile links within AI Overviews and AI Mode. These new link cards appear in a pop-up window when you hover over them on desktop. They also show more prominent details about the website.

Google was testing these earlier and now this new style is live.

What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of these new link pop up menus on hover:

What Google said. Google’s Robby Stein posted on X saying:

• “New on Search: In AI Overviews and AI Mode, groups of links will automatically appear in a pop-up as you hover over them on desktop, so you can jump right into a website to learn more. And we’ll show more descriptive and prominent link icons within the response across both desktop and mobile.”
• “Our testing shows this new UI is more engaging, making it easier to get to great content across the web.”

Why we care. This new style does appear to encourage more clicks to websites and I do hope that we will see more traffic from Google’s AI experiences from these changes.

Of course, we still have no way to measure this in Search Console.

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