{"slug": "google-ai-overviews-get-a-character-counter-tool", "title": "Google AI Overviews Get A Character Counter Tool", "summary": "Google has introduced an interactive Character Counter widget within AI Overviews for character counter search queries, a feature spotted by Damir B, who warned that sites like wordcounter.net will suffer heavily from this. The widget appears directly in Google Search results, continuing Google's pattern of embedding tools that make standalone websites obsolete.", "body_md": "Google will now give you an interactive widget within AI Overviews for when you are looking for a simple character counter website. Websites that offer character counting service features are in trouble.\n\nNow when you search for variations of [[character counter](https://www.google.com/search?q=character+counter)] queries, Google AI Overviews will load an \"interactive Character Counter\" widget. \n\nHere is a GIF of it in action:\n\nThis was spotted by Damir B who informed me of this on [X](https://x.com/DamirBilalov/status/2096314952088776723), he said, \"wordcounter. net and other similar sites are going to suffer heavily from this.\"\n\nHere is a static image of this feature:\n\nI mean, we've seen this over and over again - from [weather](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-weathernext-ai-40448.html) results, [dictionary](https://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022607.html) results, movies, TV shows, [emojis](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-copyable-emojis-ai-overviews-41929.html) and so on.  Google will just give people the answer in the search results, making the website options obsolete. \n\nForum discussion at [X](https://x.com/DamirBilalov/status/2096314952088776723).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-overviews-get-a-character-counter-tool", "canonical_source": "https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overviews-character-counter-42026.html", "published_at": "2026-09-07 11:05:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 13:29:27.647833+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Google", "Damir B", "wordcounter.net"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-overviews-get-a-character-counter-tool", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-overviews-get-a-character-counter-tool.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-overviews-get-a-character-counter-tool.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-ai-overviews-get-a-character-counter-tool.jsonld"}}