Google has improved the artificial intelligence of its search engine

You know the highlighted snippet of text at the very top of Google's search results page when you search

This is called a "dedicated snippet" and it's designed to respond quickly to your query.Google now makes sure that the information it highlights is reliable and accurate using its latest AI model.

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Google's search AI can now reconcile snippet titles – information highlighted in large print that serves asheader for dedicated snippets – with other high-quality sources on the web.It can determine whether there is a general consensus on that headline, even if the sources useDifferent words or concepts to describe the same fact or idea.Google claims that this "consensus-based technique has greatly improved the quality and usefulness of the snippets it serves."

However, for some queries, such asqueries with false prerequisites, displaying snippets is not the best way to provide information. To address this issue, Google has tweaked its AI search so that this particular update reduces the display of snippets for such queries by 40 percent.

In addition, if artificial intelligence, Google has determined that the overall results of a search query canhave questionable quality, the results page will now say something like this: "It looks like there aren't many good results for this search term" and you'll be promptedVerify the source of the information.