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.
Now when you search for variations of [character counter] queries, Google AI Overviews will load an "interactive Character Counter" widget.
Here is a GIF of it in action:
This was spotted by Damir B who informed me of this on X, he said, "wordcounter. net and other similar sites are going to suffer heavily from this."
Here is a static image of this feature:
I mean, we've seen this over and over again - from weather results, dictionary results, movies, TV shows, mortgage calculators, emojis and so on. Google will just give people the answer in the search results, making the website options obsolete.
Forum discussion at X.
