‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI

A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar.

The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people…