{"id":21691,"date":"2026-01-24T17:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/google-ai-overviews-cite-youtube-more-than-any-medical-site-for-health-queries-study-suggests\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:37:27","slug":"google-ai-overviews-cite-youtube-more-than-any-medical-site-for-health-queries-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/google-ai-overviews-cite-youtube-more-than-any-medical-site-for-health-queries-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jan\/24\/how-the-confident-authority-of-google-ai-overviews-is-putting-public-health-at-risk\">How the \u2018confident authority\u2019 of AI Overviews is putting public health at risk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jan\/24\/how-the-confident-authority-of-google-ai-overviews-is-putting-public-health-at-risk\">raises fresh questions<\/a> about a tool seen by 2 billion people each month.<\/p>\n<p>The company has said its AI summaries, which appear at the top of search results and use generative AI to answer questions from users, are <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google\/intl\/en-GB\/ways-to-search\/ai-overviews\/\">\u201creliable\u201d<\/a> and cite reputable medical sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/24\/google-ai-overviews-youtube-medical-citations-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0fd9215aeefc347883d2e12f7e2ac337bc58c231\/0_147_4000_3198\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fc74b1fc34e5bb3f6fa7feb89ef1830f\" title=\"Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests\" \/>Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month<br \/>\n\u2022 How the \u2018confident authority\u2019 of AI Overviews is putting public health at risk<br \/>\nGoogle\u2019s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that raises fresh questions about a tool seen by 2 billion people each month.<br \/>\nThe company has said its AI summaries, which appear at the top of search results and use generative AI to answer questions from users, are \u201creliable\u201d and cite reputable medical sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Mayo Clinic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month \u2022 How the \u2018confident authority\u2019 of AI Overviews is putting public health at risk Google\u2019s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/google-ai-overviews-cite-youtube-more-than-any-medical-site-for-health-queries-study-suggests\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}