Google AI Overviews
Google AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries that Google places above the classic organic search results; they answer a query directly and link to individual sources as supporting evidence.
In practice
Because AI Overviews absorb part of the clicks that used to go to organic results, being named as a cited source inside the overview becomes a visibility goal in its own right, alongside the classic position in the search results. Clear answer paragraphs that stand on their own, combined with structured data, improve the chance of such a citation.