At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.
Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.
The resulting experience will no longer look much like how people envision Google Search, which has long been defined by ranked links to websites that have the information you need.
With the revamped Search experience, the new search box simply expands to accommodate longer, more conversational queries, rather than making you decide what type of search experience or mode you want to choose at the start of your query. It will also have a new AI-powered query suggestion system that goes beyond autocomplete to help people craft more complex and nuanced queries, Google says.
Google’s AI Overviews will also allow users to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode, beginning Tuesday, the company noted.
by cmaia1503
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So far I’ve been doing: search term – ai. There’s no way to tell if information fed to you by AI is accurate or legitimate. DuckDuckGo it is, then.
Omg I don’t want that fucking annoying ai bs I just want a decent search, stupid fucks.
Ew
And this is why I use DuckDuckGo, yikes.
Well fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
everyone should switch to ecosia and oceanhero! ecosia plants a tree with every search you make and oceanhero picks up a piece of trash from the ocean with every search you make there.
BOOOOOOOOOOO! I already have the most difficult time ever searching for everything because Google is not what it used to be and now they’re going to make it worse. On that note, does anyone have any recommendations for where I can search for things and find credible information?
Their examples are ALL to do with buying stuff. People don’t just use Google to search for products. At one time, it’s primary purpose was to search for information.
This just looks like a shittier version of the Amazon marketplace.
2026 is truly the year the internet died
Welp, that makes it very easy to never use them again. At this point I’d rather use fucking Bing
That’s fine. I’ll just use a different search engine.
You can avoid this by making Firefox your main browser and adding the udm14 extension! There is also a udm14 app for phone browsing 🙂
RIP SEO
Stop pushing AI down our throat’s.
FFS
Google was already ruined anyway. The “list of links” is usually just ads and SEO-optimized slop from people who learned how to game their system.
This is like if McDonalds stopped serving fries because we’re all supposed to eat chocolate garlic turnip stew now.
Google’s dead and the company sucks.
I’ve said no every time it asks and it continues to ask 😭
Rest in hell google
Google AI isn’t even reliable, they’re just making their service infinitely shittier.
Wtf, this sounds so unnecessarily complicated. I just want search results for “Italian restaurants near me” or “Portland weather”. Google is already unusable now due to all the sponsored links, and I hate the current AI feature and always ignore it. This new “intelligent search” whatever is the final nail in the coffin for me using Google. Duck Duck Go is the way.
“This is how we prevent the bubble. We make the one thing that unites most the world reliant on ai”
Nooo
Nothing is worse than wanting a simple answer and getting the ai overview the scrapes sites thus eliminating traffic to the useful site. Now it’s gonna chat with me about my search? The push to “humanize” AI is concerning, these are not helpful people.
Every time someone says that the future of AI is inevitable… I always wonder who made that decision.
AI is not inevitable. It is a conscious choice.
I know it initially seems insane to pay for a search engine but anyone looking for a search engine that prioritizes showing you actual useful links should try Kagi. AI results are never given to you without your request and you can personalize which sites you want to see first.