{"id":10750,"date":"2026-07-01T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=10750"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:30:39","slug":"google-begins-rollout-of-top-stories-carousel-in-ai-overviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=10750","title":{"rendered":"Google Begins Rollout Of Top Stories Carousel In AI Overviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-carousel-0DOfc0Pa.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Carousel\" title=\"Google Begins Rollout Of Top Stories Carousel In AI Overviews\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google seems to be testing the rollout of top stories within the AI Overview section of the Google Search results. This was something Google pre-announced last month and it now seems to be rolling out to some searchers.<\/p> <p>Lily Ray first spotted this and posted about it on X and I was able to replicate it in one of my browser sessions &#8211; not all:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-overview-carousel-stories-nTuGRvjE.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Overview Carousel Stories\" title=\"Google Begins Rollout Of Top Stories Carousel In AI Overviews\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>The screenshot on the right shows a Top Stories carousel with content from The New York Times, Yahoo and others. I didn&#8217;t see the preferred sources, but I assume they can show up if there is content that matches your query to your preferred sources.<\/p> <p>Google wrote in May, &#8220;for some searches when you have a question about a developing topic, you&#8217;ll start seeing a prominent carousel, which will also highlight your Preferred Sources. This will help make timely articles more visible on a wider range of queries.&#8221;<\/p> <p>This UI change can be a big improvement and send nice traffic to publishers.<\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p>#Google #Begins #Rollout #Top #Stories #Carousel #Overviews1782898239<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google seems to be testing the rollout of top stories within the AI Overview section of the Google Search results. This was something Google pre-announced last month and it now seems to be rolling out to some searchers. Lily Ray first spotted this and posted about it on X and I was able to replicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1887,12326,75,456,18741,8154,588],"class_list":["post-10750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-begins","tag-carousel","tag-google","tag-overviews","tag-rollout","tag-stories","tag-top"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}