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Google is testing a new layout for hotel searches that relocates the AI Overview from the top of the results page to a side panel beneath the hotel’s knowledge panel. The change keeps the standard hotel information block in its usual place and pushes the AI-generated summary down into the lower-right area of the page, leaving more room at the top for the listing itself.<\/p>\n
The shift affects how travelers see AI-written summaries when researching a specific property, and it is part of a broader set of experiments Google is running on how AI Overviews appear inside local search results.<\/p>\n
When a searcher looks up a hotel by name, Google typically returns a knowledge panel at the top of the results page. The panel shows the property’s name, photos, address, ratings, price range, and a short description pulled from Google’s knowledge graph. In the current test, the AI Overview no longer sits above the rest of the organic results. Instead, it appears as a side panel positioned under the hotel knowledge panel, in the lower-right area of the page.<\/p>\n
The standard AI Overview content is still there: a generated answer that pulls from multiple sources, with links to the pages the model drew from. The difference is purely positional. The summary is moved further down the page rather than leading the search experience.<\/p>\n
Screenshots of the new placement were shared on X by a search marketer who compared the test against the familiar layout. In the default version most users see, the AI Overview is the first block below the search bar. In the test version, the knowledge panel and its associated hotel module hold the prime real estate, and the AI Overview follows underneath as a secondary block.<\/p>\n
The screenshots were posted on X, where they drew attention from the search community. Forum discussion about the test continued on the same platform.<\/p>\n
Placing the AI Overview at the bottom of the page rather than the top means travelers encounter the hotel’s own information first: photos, reviews, map, amenities, and booking links. The AI summary becomes a supporting reference rather than the opening view.<\/p>\n
For hotels, this could shift which content gets the first look. A property’s own Google Business Profile, the photos it has uploaded, and the reviews on its listing become the first thing a searcher sees, with the AI-written synthesis arriving second. It also echoes the wider changes Google has been making to AI Overviews in local panels, where the summary is increasingly treated as an add-on to the local results rather than the headline.<\/p>\n
No. The relocated AI Overview is appearing as a test for some users on some hotel queries. Google routinely runs layout experiments on Search, and a side-panel placement for hotel queries is one of the variations currently in circulation. Most searchers will still see the default layout with the AI Overview at the top of the page, and the test is expected to remain limited in reach until Google decides whether to roll it out more broadly.<\/p>\n
Hotel searches are a small slice of the AI Overviews experiment, but the pattern is familiar. Google has been adjusting where and how AI Overviews appear in local results, in shopping layouts, and in panel-style features across Search. Moving the summary away from the top of the page is one more signal that Google is still working out how much screen space AI answers should take, and how to balance them against the traditional knowledge panel and the organic links below.<\/p>\n
In the test, the AI Overview is moved from the top of the search results page to a side panel positioned beneath the hotel’s knowledge panel, in the lower-right area of the page.<\/p>\n
No. The side-panel placement is an active test, so it is only showing up for some users on some hotel queries. Most searchers still see the default layout with the AI Overview at the top of the page.<\/p>\n
The content of the AI Overview is unchanged. The test only relocates it within the page. The hotel knowledge panel, photos, ratings, and booking links stay in their usual position at the top, and the AI-generated summary follows beneath them.<\/p>\n
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