{"id":3139,"date":"2026-02-09T22:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:19:24","slug":"google-ai-overviews-tests-contextual-overlay-link-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Overviews Tests Contextual Overlay Link Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-overlay-cards-1770394040.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Overlay Cards\" title=\"Google AI Overviews Tests Contextual Overlay Link Cards\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Over the past week or so, Google has been testing a new format for link cards in the AI Overviews within Google Search. When you place your mouse cursor over a link clip icon, a new overlay will show you the page\/site cards that line of text is being sourced from.<\/p> <p>Here is a screenshot that I was able to trigger on Friday late morning in New York on Apple Safari desktop:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-overview-link-overlays-1770394075.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Overview Link Overlays\" title=\"Google AI Overviews Tests Contextual Overlay Link Cards\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>This was first spotted by Harpreet who posted this on X:<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Google testing a new type of citation style in AI Overviews. Anyone seen this before? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rustybrick<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ViGKwWj5Zo\">pic.twitter.com\/ViGKwWj5Zo<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Harpreet (@harpreetchatha_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harpreetchatha_\/status\/2018792556730150990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Then both Gagan Ghotra and Sachin Patel spotted it a couple of days later:<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">i also see this today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SkSOOKHZv6\">pic.twitter.com\/SkSOOKHZv6<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Sachin Patel (@SachuPatel53124) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SachuPatel53124\/status\/2019338175395865037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <p>This might be related to the contextual links interface but I am really not sure.<\/p> <p>Google has been experimenting with ways to make links more clickable from AI Overviews, the big question is, do any of these work?<\/p> <p>This interface does not seem to be fully live, but does seem to be being tested heavily. <\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>#Google #Overviews #Tests #Contextual #Overlay #Link #Cards1770646764<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week or so, Google has been testing a new format for link cards in the AI Overviews within Google Search. When you place your mouse cursor over a link clip icon, a new overlay will show you the page\/site cards that line of text is being sourced from. Here is a screenshot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[897,10322,75,2123,10323,456,1706],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-cards","tag-contextual","tag-google","tag-link","tag-overlay","tag-overviews","tag-tests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","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=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}