With AI Mode, Google Search Is About to Get Even Chattier

Google is rolling out its AI Mode search experience to everyone in the US starting today. The chatbot-style addition to the company’s search engine results page is designed to answer longer queries and uses Google’s AI model to generate full responses based on—and linking back to—indexed websites on the open web. AI Mode is Google’s direct response to the release of search engines from Silicon Valley startups like OpenAI and Perplexity, which provide chatbot-style answers to questions and queries. If all of this feels like déjà vu, that’s because at last year’s Google I/O developer conference, the company rolled out AI Mode’s precursor, AI Overviews. In 2024, Google started to use its machine intelligence model to summarize the contents of the web and plaster a block of text at the top of the results for some queries. AI Overviews were criticized at the time of their release for giving wrong and absurd answers as a flood of users pushed the feature to its limits and demonstrated how ... Read full article.