The trend of ranking shopping keywords shows marketers where AI search is showing up within the buyer’s journey and what businesses should expect. AI overviews are Google’s generative artificial intelligence summaries that appear prominently on search results, often before organic listings and sometimes even above ads. Unlike features snippets, which extract concise information from a single web page to answer a specific query, AI overviews synthesize information from multiple sources to provide a more comprehensive summary. This approach provides users with a broader, more streamlined understanding of their search topic without the need to click through multiple links.