Why AI Overviews produces errors The recurring problems with AI Overviews stem from a design flaw in how the system works. As we reported in May 2024, Google built AI Overviews to show information backed up by top web results from its page ranking system. The company designed the feature this way based on the assumption that highly ranked pages contain accurate information. However, Google’s page ranking algorithm has long struggled with SEO-gamed content and spam. The system now feeds these unr...