As AI Mode testing continues, Google is trialing a new way to launch the generative experience from the Search bar on Android.
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Google’s AI Overviews have taken over the experience of Search in many ways, and now Google is looking to expand the prominence of links in these summaries, but those links aren’t going to other websites.
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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.
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AI Mode entered testing a month ago and Google is now expanding access to free Labs users, as well as adding Lens visual search.
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The latest Google Search easter egg is more elaborate than usual with the ability to catch 151 Pokémon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Following yesterday’s announcement, Google is rolling out early access to Search’s new AI Mode experiment for Google One AI Premium subscribers.
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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.
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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.
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We’ve reported that Google is working on an “AI Mode” for Search, and it seems Microsoft is going to do the same thing with Bing with a new “Copilot Search” mode.
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As previously spotted, Google Search is working on a new “AI Mode” that offers a “persistent place” to ask more “open-ended / exploratory questions” and get generated AI Overview-style responses. Powered by Gemini 2.0, Google has begun testing this experience with employees.
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Following Daily Listen in early January, Google is launching a new Search Lab called “Ask for me.”
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Google Search is home to a number of built-in tools and Easter Eggs, with a new “Block Breaker” game being the most recent addition.
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In recent weeks (if not longer), Google Search has been testing a new dark theme that is blue and a bit darker.
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Google Search has been a dominant force in search for years now, but slowly it seems to be eroding as competitors get better, and as Google Search continues to grow a reputation for being worse and worse at its core job. And, now, Google Search appears to have hit its lowest market share in a decade.
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I like Google Discover and the feed — for the most part — surfaces interesting articles aligned with my interests. Reading, rather than listening, is how I usually consume information, but Google’s new Daily Listen is remarkably compelling and boosts Discover in a meaningful way.
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Google is kicking off a new experiment in Search Labs today called “Daily Listen.” It’s a bit like NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews, while there are also podcast parallels.
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Google’s integrated “Saved” feature now lets you search your web and Discover bookmarks, as well as locations placed in Google Maps lists.
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Google is readying some sort of “AI Mode” for the Search app on Android that appears to be a new conversational and visual (or multimodal) experience.
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Google has introduced a new feature on iOS that injects links on third-party websites that take users back to Google Search.
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Google is running a “small” test in portions of Europe which will see content from EU-based news publishers being removed from Google products including Search and News for a period of time.
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