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As AI continues to be a core focus of its search experience, Google appears to now be testing the replacement of its iconic “I’m Feeling Lucky” button with a new button for its AI Mode.

Google is rolling out a redesign of the Search bar homescreen widget on Android that better emphasizes the optional shortcut.

Google today published a report about how it’s using the latest AI approaches to combat spam across Search, Chrome (with Gemini Nano for Enhanced Protection), and Android.

The Google app on iOS, which has its own web browser, is adding a new “Simplify” feature when you come across complex text.

Besides the widget shortcut, Google is making AI Mode faster to access with one-tap search on Android and iOS.

After adding multimodal Lens search on Android and iOS last month, Google is updating AI Mode with more features while dropping the US waitlist for immediate sign-up.

As work on AI Mode continues, Google is adding a prominent shortcut for it on Android, while a sleek header redesign is being tested.

Historically, Google users around the world have visited country-specific sites like google.com.br (Brazil), google.fr (France), or google.co.uk (UK). Google Search is now getting rid of these country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) in favor of using google.com globally.

As AI Mode testing continues, Google is trialing a new way to launch the generative experience from the Search bar on Android.

The Google homepage is getting a major shakeup, as the company has announced that its Discover news feed and a new “At a glance” widget section will be coming to the Search experience on desktop, though there’s no word on when.

AI Mode entered testing a month ago and Google is now expanding access to free Labs users, as well as adding Lens visual search.

The latest Google Search easter egg is more elaborate than usual with the ability to catch 151 Pokémon. 

Ahead of the busy summer season, Google is rolling out a handful of planning and travel tools across Maps (like a handy Gemini screenshots feature) and Search. 

Google announced the new Search AI Mode at the start of March, and waitlist access is now expanding beyond Google One AI Premium to free users.

Besides Search and Discover, the Google app on Android offers a bookmarking system that is now getting a fresh coat of paint as part of the “Activity” tab.

AI has played a large role in disseminating information to users from thousands of sources, and healthcare is a massive search category with proprietary search functions. Google announced that Search is adding a new function that will showcase user suggestions sourced from online discussions to suggest something for that pain in your left side.

Following yesterday’s announcement, Google is rolling out early access to Search’s new AI Mode experiment for Google One AI Premium subscribers.

Google today is announcing and beginning testing on an “AI Mode” for Search. This “early experiment” lets you ask more complex questions that will be answered by an AI-generated response that takes up the entire page.

The Google app’s Song Search capability is excellent and finally has a history shortcut to see past lookups. It’s available today in Google for iOS, but Song Search history can be accessed by anyone on the web.