SAN FRANCISCO, California — Google is injecting its search engine with more artificial intelligence (AI) that will enable people to voice questions about images and occasionally organize an entire page of results, despite the technology's past misadventures with misleading information.
The latest changes announced on Thursday herald the next step in an AI-driven makeover that Google launched in mid-May when it began responding to some queries with summaries written by the technology at the top of its influential results page. Those summaries, dubbed "AI Overviews," raised fears among publishers that fewer people would click on search links to their websites and undercut the traffic needed to sell digital ads that help finance their operations.
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