"Google announced Tuesday that it would expand its iconic search bar, the centerpiece of the most-visited website in the world, with a heavy dose of artificial intelligence. The tech giant is also trying its hand at hi-tech glasses again, more than a decade after wearers of its first eyewear were dubbed glassholes and laughed out of San Francisco. Google executives announced at the company's annual conference for software developers, Google I/O, that its search box would accommodate longer and more specific queries than before—questions more like those people would ask one another than Search's idiosyncratic syntax."
"The changes will direct users to engage directly with Google's chatbot. The change to search is underpinned by the company's new artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3.5, announced the same day. Executives said Gemini would make longer text predictions based on what users have already typed than it does currently. An everyday Google search may likewise return more visual elements and suggestions to interact with Google's AI to create a calendar invite, a plan in a spreadsheet or another action within Google's family of products."
"Google Search is AI search, said Elizabeth Reid, who oversees the product, calling the changes the biggest Google Search had seen in its nearly 30-year history. The updates roll out globally to the desktop and mobile versions of Google Search Tuesday. A video promoting the changes showed results that more closely resemble visually augmented versions of AI Overviews, the bulleted summary responses that Google Search returns now, than a list of links. Users will still be able to choose the original version of search, the collection of links, by clicking a tab titled Web."
"Reid said that Google Search queries reached an all-time high last month. Since the debut of Search's AI Mode a year ago, in which a user chats with a Gemini-powered bot rather than navigating to a list of links, queries to the chatbot-specific interface have dou"
Google will expand the search bar to handle longer, more specific questions that resemble how people ask one another. The updates are powered by Gemini 3.5, which improves longer text predictions based on what users have already typed. Search results may include more visual elements and suggestions that let users take actions within Google products, such as creating a calendar invite or building a plan in a spreadsheet. The rollout will appear globally on desktop and mobile. A new experience will present results more like AI Overviews, while users can switch back to the traditional list-of-links view using a Web tab. Google said Search queries reached an all-time high last month.
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