Google announced that Preferred Sources is coming to AI Overviews and AI Mode, alongside new article carousels and an expansion of the “Highly Cited” label across search results. Users have now selected more than 345,000 sources through Google’s Preferred Sources feature, up from roughly 90,000 when the company expanded the tool globally . Preferred Sources In AI Overviews & AI Mode When Preferred Sources launched , labels only appeared in Top Stories. Google then expanded the feature to all languages in April. Starting today, those labels will also appear on links inside AI Overviews and AI Mode responses. Duncan Osborn, Product Manager for Google Search, said users will “be able to easily spot links in AI responses from the sources you’ve already selected.” Google says people click through to Preferred Sources at twice the rate of other links. The company didn’t share how that metric was measured or whether the comparison controls for user intent.…