Google slowly replacing Wikipedia snippets with Google Gemini AI?

[journo]

More and more of my Google searches return Google Gemini AI exclusively as the first result.

[Ognistysztorm]

Can confirm that the same happens to me as well.

[ericbarbour]

Tried it, and you're right--for the first time in 15+ years, Wikipedia results are pushed WAY down on the page. There's all kinds of assorted links above it.

I tried "tacos al pastor", there's a perfectly good WP article about it. The first half of the results linked to recipes and an assortment of "Things to know" and "What people are saying". The WP article is very far down the page.

"Magnetron" gives an "AI overview" followed by a ScienceDirect link (OMG horrors!), followed by "People also ask". Then comes the WP article.

This is a very big deal and I have no doubt the WMF knows Google is doing this. And I am sure they are sweating bullets. This will cost them a LOT of direct traffic.

[Ognistysztorm]

Tried it, and you're right--for the first time in 15+ years, Wikipedia results are pushed WAY down on the page. There's all kinds of assorted links above it.

I tried "tacos al pastor", there's a perfectly good WP article about it. The first half of the results linked to recipes and an assortment of "Things to know" and "What people are saying". The WP article is very far down the page.

"Magnetron" gives an "AI overview" followed by a ScienceDirect link (OMG horrors!), followed by "People also ask". Then comes the WP article.

This is a very big deal and I have no doubt the WMF knows Google is doing this. And I am sure they are sweating bullets. This will cost them a LOT of direct traffic.

If using a VPN set to Asia-Pacific area the result still prioritize Wikipedia. However I suspect that it'll not be for long before Google rolls out the changes to the rest of the world.