AI Overviews is Google's generative answer feature that synthesizes an answer with cited sources on top of standard Google Search results.
AI Overviews is Google's generative answer feature that synthesizes an answer with cited sources on top of standard Google Search results.
Per Google's AI-features documentation, AI Overviews eligibility follows standard Search eligibility — no separate opt-in, no separate schema type. The feature was launched broadly in May 2024.
Get cited by Google AI Overviews the same way you earn any Google organic feature: publish helpful, people-first content on a crawlable, canonical URL with valid structured data, and rank well enough on the underlying query that Google's generative layer pulls your page into the source strip.
Rich results and AI Overviews draw on the same underlying signals — crawlable HTML, valid structured data, and helpful content — so a page eligible for one is usually eligible for the other, though rich results and AI Overviews are separate features with independent triggering logic.
Google-Extended does not affect AI Overviews — it controls whether your content is used to train Google's generative AI models, while AI Overviews eligibility is governed by standard Googlebot indexing and the same content and structured-data guidelines that apply to classic Search.