Today, Google announced that will begin testing even more AI to the search engine we all use daily. Whether we like it or not, Google Search AI Overview summaries are getting upgraded, and you can try a new “AI Mode” on search.
According to Google, users everywhere love AI Overviews in search. As a result, the company plans to start showing those overviews more often and in more places. For starters, you’ll get a detailed AI Overview for more search queries than ever before, and the feature is expanding to more users around the globe. Even if you’re logged out of your Google account, you’ll likely still see overviews.
Starting today, Google Search AI Overviews will upgrade to Gemini 2.0 models, improving the results for difficult questions, coding questions, and advanced math, science, and multimodal queries. Google claims that Gemini 2.0 will allow for faster and higher-quality results. Additionally, thanks to its knowledge model, it’ll have more information to display on each AI Overview. More, better, smarter.
The search giant also mentioned that Google accounts for teens can now use AI Overviews, for better or worse. Don’t cheat on your homework, kids!
A New AI Mode in Google Search
Furthermore, Google Search has an all-new “AI Mode” feature that’ll make it more useful and powerful. At first glance, this looks and sounds like Google’s answer to ChatGPT’s web search mode, which continues to grow in popularity. It’s worth noting that the new AI Mode is apparently an “early experiment” by the search giant, built to allow for more complex questions and better AI overviews, summaries, and detailed responses.
Here’s what Google had to say about its new AI Mode: “This new Search mode expands what AI Overviews can do with more advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal capabilities so you can get help with even your toughest questions. You can ask anything on your mind and get a helpful AI-powered response with the ability to go further with follow-up questions and helpful web links.”
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Google claims AI Mode will allow you to ask it anything and deliver exceptional results beyond what’s currently offered. For example, some questions are too advanced for a typical Google Search or more “nuanced” and require a follow-up question or two. In those situations, regular Search handles each query as its own and falls flat. With AI Mode, you’ll be able to have multimodal conversational experiences with Google Search, getting detailed full-page AI Overviews and results.
However, because this is a new and experimental feature, you need to join the waitlist on the Google Search Labs page. Once you’re invited, turn it on in labs and look for the new “AI Mode” tab inside Google Search.
A preview of Google Search “AI Mode”
Google further explains that AI Mode uses a unique new “query fan-out” technique, which issues multiple related searches simultaneously, behind the scenes, digging through multiple topics, angles, subtopics, and across countless data sources. Then, it’ll compile all that instantly and give you a detailed result. Essentially, it delivers in-depth and detailed responses packed with more information than a traditional search.
Looking at Google’s examples from the announcement, AI Mode looks similar to most chatbots, only in search form. As a result, it taps into more information in real-time and is always up-to-date. In case you haven’t noticed, Google is taking AI-generated content very seriously in Search. Gone are the days of AI results telling people to eat rocks. Google appears more confident than ever that its AI Overviews and AI models will get things right.
Source: Google Blog
