Totally resonate with this. It feels less like a helpful overview and more like a confidently wrong pop-up I have to dismiss or fact-check before I can get to the actual search results (the links below).
I saw one example where someone asked about the fastest way to boil water, and the AI overview confidently stated that adding salt lowers the boiling point significantly, making it boil faster. It sounds vaguely scientific but gets a fundamental concept completely backward! That's the kind of error that's more worrying than just bad math – it confidently misrepresents basic, easily verifiable science.
It's a strange feeling having to approach Google search results with a layer of skepticism now, which used to be the gold standard for getting quickly pointed to reliable info. The AI Overview feels like a glossy, sometimes misleading, advertisement for the links I actually wanted in the first place.
I saw one example where someone asked about the fastest way to boil water, and the AI overview confidently stated that adding salt lowers the boiling point significantly, making it boil faster. It sounds vaguely scientific but gets a fundamental concept completely backward! That's the kind of error that's more worrying than just bad math – it confidently misrepresents basic, easily verifiable science.
It's a strange feeling having to approach Google search results with a layer of skepticism now, which used to be the gold standard for getting quickly pointed to reliable info. The AI Overview feels like a glossy, sometimes misleading, advertisement for the links I actually wanted in the first place.