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Google Tests Relocating AI Overviews to Side Panel in Hotel Searches

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Google is experimenting with moving AI Overviews from the top of hotel search results to a bottom-right panel position.

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Optimixed's original report on this story.

SERoundtable reports that Google is testing a repositioning of AI Overviews in hotel searches, moving them from the top of the page to a bottom-right location alongside the hotel knowledge panel. This change alters the visibility and prominence of AI-generated summaries in a key e-commerce-adjacent search vertical.

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