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:

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

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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

Turks and Caicos Islands

Tuvalu

U.S. Virgin Islands

Uganda

United States Minor Outlying Islands

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Vietnam

Western Sahara

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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