Google is displaying AI Overviews for definition queries in their full form, with no click needed, according to Search Engine Roundtable. A search for [define expandable] now fills the entire visible results page with the AI Overview, and users must scroll to reach web listings.
Glenn Gabe flagged the change on X on November 11, saying it looks “newish… and maybe very new.” He checked saved snapshots and found those Overviews collapsed recently, or absent altogether. Google has not announced the change.
The behavior extends a pattern Google described in August. Robby Stein of Google said Overviews expand dynamically only “for topics where our systems determine it to be most useful,” and that expansion stops once a user starts scrolling. Definitions now appear to be treated as one such topic by default, across all queries of that type.
For sites that publish glossaries, dictionaries, and meaning pages, the first screen of results is now occupied entirely by Google’s answer. Teams that rely on definition traffic should segment those queries in Search Console and compare click-through rates before and after November 11.
Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz, November 11, 2026.
