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AI Overviews shifts search from links to model answers
Sep 23, 2026SOURCE: theguardian.com
SO WHAT
This is a short-lived window where users can still choose routes—yet the interface is consolidating decision power into AI-first defaults.
Google keeps the familiar link list, but AI has moved to the front of the search bar. The wire is rerouting attention before browsing even starts.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.