The update includes end-of-response suggestions, subscription labels, creator and community identifiers, links placed beside relevant text, and desktop hover previews.
Google said the changes aim to connect users with authentic voices and useful information, while improving how links are shown and ranked in generative search results.
The company said it uses techniques such as query fan-out to find relevant sites more deeply across the web and will keep testing the features based on user response.
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