Google is now showing AI Overviews fully expanded by default for definition searches, Search Engine Roundtable reported, so users no longer need to click "Show more" to see the full answer. On a query such as [define expandable], the outlet said, the AI Overview takes over the whole visible portion of the results page, and users have to scroll down to reach web results.
Glenn Gabe first spotted the change and posted on X on November 11, 2026 that definitions "are now showing AIOs fully expanded by default," adding that he thought it was "newish... and maybe very new" and calling it "a big heads-up for sites providing definitions and meanings." The report does not cite a Google statement on this specific change.
Google had earlier confirmed that it dynamically expands some AI Overviews based on the query. In August, Robby Stein of Google told Search Engine Roundtable that AI Overviews only expand "for topics where our systems determine it to be most useful," that the expansion stops once a user starts scrolling, and that Google is "always testing and tuning these experiences."