Google confirmed that AI Overviews now expand on their own for some queries, loading the full AI answer along with the Ask anything prompt box that feeds AI Mode, according to Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable. Searchers previously got a snippet with a Show more button to open the rest. The expanded panel pushes the ten organic links much further down the page. A Google spokesperson said the expansion happens only on topics its systems judge most useful, and that its own research shows the dynamic version makes search more useful and draws people further into follow-up questions. Robby Stein of Google said the expansion is cancelled if a searcher has already started scrolling, so nobody loses their place on the page.
