Google SGE expands to 120 countries while adding new follow-up questions, AI translation help and more definitions

The generative AI version of Google Search, Google Search Generative Experience, is now rolling out to over 120 countries and territories. Google also added new ways to follow up with AI-generated search answers, new AI translation help, and additional AI-powered definitions.

This is Google’s “largest global expansion yet” of SGE, the company announced.

SGE Follow-up questions

Google is now testing a new way for searchers to ask follow-up questions within the SGE search results page. As you continue to explore a topic, you can easily see your prior questions and search results, Google explained.

Here is what it looks like:

This update will start to roll out over the coming weeks, starting first in English in the United States, Google said.

SGE AI-translation help

Shalom! When one word can have multiple translations, it can be a bit confusing to understand the meaning. That is why SGE AI-translation is adding context to your translations. Google explained, “Let’s say you want to translate “is there a tie?” from English to Spanish. It seems straightforward, but it’s possible that the word tie could refer to either a piece of clothing or a contest with no winner.”

When Google Search finds there may be more than one meaning or translation for a word or phase, Google will underline the terms. You can then tap any of those words and you can indicate the specific meaning that reflects what you want to say. This option may also appear when you need to specify the gender for a particular word, Google added.

Here is what it looks like:

More SGE definitions

SGE now supports showing more definitions from its initial launch of this feature in August. In August, SGE showed definitions for educational topics — like science, economics, or history. Now Google is expanding those definitions for categories such as coding and health information.

Here is what those look like:

This update is rolling out over the next month, in English in the United States, with more countries and languages expected to follow soon, Google said.

120 countries/territories and more languages

SGE is also rolling out in Search Labs to 120 countries and territories and more languages. These countries include most of Latin America, South Korea, Indonesia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Plus, SGE will work for four new languages for everyone using SGE: Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Indonesian.

Here is how it looks in Spanish:

Here are the countries SGE is now currently supported in (help document here):

American Samoa
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
Colombia
Comoros
Congo [DRC]
Congo [Republic]
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Côte d’Ivoire
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
French Guiana
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Indonesia
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Mongolia
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Northern Mariana Islands
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
U.S. Virgin Islands
Uganda
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe

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