Google is expanding its AI-powered search experience, known as AI Overviews, to five additional languages, broadening access for users worldwide. Previously, the feature had been available exclusively to English speakers for over six months.
In an announcement made on Monday, Google confirmed that AI Overviews will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. This update follows last month’s expansion of AI-driven search to 180 new markets. Initially launched in the U.S., the feature was later rolled out to the U.K. and India.
“With this expansion, more users can now ask complex questions in their preferred language using AI Overviews and explore the web in a more immersive way,” said Hema Budaraju, Vice President of Product Management for Google Search, in a blog post.
AI Overviews was first introduced in March as an experimental feature for Google One AI Premium subscribers. It represents Google’s response to emerging AI search platforms like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The feature leverages a customized version of Gemini 2.5, offering multimodal capabilities and advanced reasoning.
In August, Google introduced agent capabilities within AI Overviews, enabling the system to book restaurant reservations, with plans to support local service bookings and event ticketing in the future. These features are currently available only to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S., accessible via the “Agents in AI Overviews” experiment in Labs. The Ultra tier costs $249.99 per month.
So far, users can access Google’s AI Overviews via a dedicated tab on the search results page or through a button in the search bar. The company appears to be moving toward making this AI-driven search experience the default setting “soon,” as noted by Logan Kilpatrick, a product manager at Google DeepMind, in a recent response to a user post on X.
Recent AI updates from Google, including AI Overviews and AI-generated summaries, have faced criticism for potentially reducing search click-through rates. However, Google denied last month that its AI search features are causing a decline in website traffic.
