Google Search Gets More AI Overviews, Powered by Gemini 2.0

Google is expanding AI Overviews to more users in the US and is giving it a Gemini 2.0 upgrade, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. AI Overviews are Google's function in Search that uses AI to automatically generate answers to queries with videos and citations, before the usual blue links. Now, it'll work on more types of queries, such as coding and advanced math equations and won't require users to sign in for it to work. Visually, everything will look the same. Along with the update to AI Overviews, Google is launching a new experiment in Search called AI Mode. For those who get past the wait list, AI Mode will sit along the top bar on your Google Search query, alongside Maps, Images and Shopping. AI Mode looks to work similarly to Google Gemini, the company's AI chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, all within Search. AI Mode uses a custom model that integrates Gemini 2.0 with Search's core ranking system, according to Google. Google AI Mode in Search Google Google refer ... Read full article.