More AI is coming to Google Search, including a Chatbot-like interface

Google wants you to use its premium search engine in the same way it uses Gemini. The company announced Tuesday that it is expanding its range Overviews of artificial intelligencewhich will now be operated by Gemini 3 It comes with an AI chat window to answer follow-up questions.

There’s no obvious way to turn off AI Overviews in Google Search (you can try it This is an alternative solution To create a custom search shortcut in your browser). You won’t be asked to use the prompt window to ask follow-up questions, but you will be redirected to the Google page Artificial intelligence mode If you do this. AI Mode is a powerful AI-driven search experience, where you can let AI take the lead and do most of the work on your search queries.

Google has been testing this ability for a while, with Robbie Stein, Google’s vice president of product for Google Search, teasing Early recurrence in December. The new feature is rolling out globally on mobile now.

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The way we search on Google is changing again

For a long time, Google has told us that the best way to get the search results we want is to be strategic with keywords. That’s why you see many search suggestions that are grammatically incorrect but include the necessary flags to get Google to return the correct pages.

Now, Google says we don’t need to be so selective. We can use longer, more conversational searches to get the results we want.

Over the past few years, we have been trained to interact with artificial intelligence differently than we do with search engines. We write and speak with chatbots using natural language, because that is what they can understand and imitate in their results. The new changes in Google AI Overviews are geared towards us being able to interact with search in the same way we interact with Gemini.

It’s all part of Google’s broader strategy to integrate AI into all of its products, from search to… Pixel smartphones. The tech giant recently introduced Personal intelligencewhich lets you connect your Google apps to customize AI results to fit your life and interests. For example, you can link your Google Photos, and custom intelligence can know that you enjoy ice cream drives on vacation and include some options in your AI-planned itinerary. Stein said in a Blogis a “seamless experience with prominent connections for continued exploration.”

More AI in Google Search would likely be bad news for publishers, who already felt shortchanged Adverse effects Overviews of artificial intelligence. The additional search bar for follow-up questions (which redirects to AI mode) is another way Google pushes blue links to the bottom of the page, if people bother to check them at all.

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