Powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google is making the biggest change to the Search box since its initial launch.
Google is making the Search box more intelligent, intuitive and dynamic. It’ll expand to give you space while you’re describing what you need. Additionally, it’ll help formulate your questions by using AI to understand your intent and make suggestions — like an AI autofill.
The tech giant is also making it easier to converse with Search, allowing users to ask a follow-up question from an AI Overview and flow into a back-and-forth conversation with AI Mode. Search will remember the context of your question, and offer links and supporting articles to get more relevant results.
The intuitive AI Search box rolls out today in all countries and languages with AI Mode, and the seamless back and forth is also rolling out today across mobile and desktop worldwide.
Google is also bringing Personal Intelligence in AI Mode to people in nearly 200 countries and across 98 languages, no subscription needed. You can connect Gmail, Photos and soon Calendar to your Search, allowing AI Mode to better understand the context of your queries.
Search agents
AI Agents in Search can help you stay up to date on information that means a lot to you. It looks across everything on the web, like blogs, news sites, social posts, real-time info on finance, shopping and sports, and monitors changes related to your question.
Google gives a couple of examples of what you can do with agents in Search. One example is apartment hunting. If you’re looking for somewhere new to live, you can give Google all of your requirements, and the agent will continuously scan in the background and let you know when there are any listings that meet your needs. Information agents launch first for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers this summer.
Google is also launching agentic booking capabilities, which will complete tasks like booking a karaoke room on a Friday night that serves food — this is right up my alley. Unfortunately, Canadians will have to wait, as this is first rolling out to the U.S. this summer.
You can check out all of Google’s big I/O announcements on MobileSyrup.
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