Imagine a world where your search engine doesn’t just list results but actually understands your complex questions, reasons through them, and delivers precise answers. That’s exactly what Google is working towards with its latest AI-powered updates to Search. Buckle up, because AI Overviews just got a major upgrade, and a brand-new AI Mode is coming into play!
The tech giant announced these updates in recent blog post, stating its achievement as its search features are expanding and are having positive approval with faster responses, deeper reasoning, and broader accessibility. Which means it can process text, images, and more all at once.
Google has stated that, “AI Overviews are one of our most popular Search features now used by more than a billion people and we’re continuing to advance and improve the experience to make them even better.” The Gemini 2.0 is similar to chatbots like Perlixity AI and ChatGPT.
By launching Gemini 2.0, Google aims to provide higher-quality responses for the difficult and complex questions, mainly in coding, advanced math, and multimodal searches. Furthermore, it also allows its users to ask multi-step questions and provides them with structured, well-researched answers by real-time web data, Google’s Knowledge Graph, and shopping insights.
One of the biggest changes? AI Overviews will appear more often, and now even teens can access them—no sign-in required.
The new AI feature will now be available to teen users also, and there is no longer a need to sign in for its access. The firm is also launching AI Mode, an early experiment in Search Labs designed for its power users who want more in-depth AI-driven responses.
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.”
when someone will ask about the differences in sleep tracking across smart rings, smartwatches, and tracking mats, its AI Mode will classify the comparison, and will provide the significant data, with the appropriate response.
The firm also stated that, “We’re expanding our testing with a limited, opt-in experience in Labs. This experimental approach will help us learn what’s most helpful and improve rapidly with feedback from people who are most eager to try it out.”
In the next testing phase the team will address multiple challenges and also rapidly make changes to the user experience based on the feedback.
The tech gaint is already working on new capabilities and updates, like adding more visual responses with images and video, richer formatting, new ways to get to helpful web content and much more
Right now, AI Mode is in an experimental phase inside Google Labs. Google One AI Premium subscribers will get first dibs on testing it, and feedback from early users will help refine and improve the feature.
Google admits that, as with any AI experiment, there will be hiccups. Sometimes, the AI might unintentionally sound opinionated or misinterpret queries. But the company is actively working on improvements, like adding more visual elements (think images and videos) and refining how AI-powered results are presented.