Google is rolling out new, more visible links within AI Overviews and AI Mode. These new link cards appear in a pop-up window when you hover over them on desktop. They also show more prominent details about the website.

Google was testing these earlier and now this new style is live.

What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of these new link pop up menus on hover:

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What Google said. Google’s Robby Stein posted on X saying:

  • “New on Search: In AI Overviews and AI Mode, groups of links will automatically appear in a pop-up as you hover over them on desktop, so you can jump right into a website to learn more. And we’ll show more descriptive and prominent link icons within the response across both desktop and mobile.”
  • “Our testing shows this new UI is more engaging, making it easier to get to great content across the web.”

Why we care. This new style does appear to encourage more clicks to websites and I do hope that we will see more traffic from Google’s AI experiences from these changes.

Of course, we still have no way to measure this in Search Console.

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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the “US Search Personality Of The Year,” you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O’Clock.

Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.




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Last Update: February 17, 2026