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I do, and so does Google. When I googled "When was John Howard elected?" the correct answer came back faster in the AI Overview than I could find the answer in the results. The source the AI Overview links even provides confirmation of the correct answer.

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Yeah but before AI overviews Google would have shown the first search result with a text snippet directly quoted from the page with the answer highlighted.

Thats just as fast (or faster) than the AI overview

The snippet included in the search result does not include or highlight the relevant fact. I feel like you’re not willing to take simple actions to confirm your assertions.

When I searched, the top result was Wikipedia with the following excerpt: “At the 1974 federal election, Howard was elected as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Bennelong. He was promoted to cabinet in 1977, and…”

To me this seemed like the relevant detail in the first excerpt.

But after more thought I realize you were probably expecting the date of his election to prime minister which is fair! That’s probably what searchers would be looking for.

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