Google Rolling Out New AI Mode Tab for Search

[MacRumors]

Google today announced that it is starting to roll out a dedicated AI Mode tab for Google Search. A "small percentage" of people in the United States will start seeing the AI Mode option "in the coming weeks."

AI Mode is a feature that Google has been testing with its Labs feature. It is a dedicated search option like News, Images, and Shopping, providing AI answers to queries directly in the search interface. AI Mode uses Gemini 2.0, Google's core AI model.

In addition to starting to roll out AI Mode as a standard search feature, Google is bringing the AI Mode option to all U.S. users who want to try it through Google Labs.

The new AI Mode experiment in Search uses advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities from Gemini to help with even your toughest questions. You can ask whatever's on your mind and get an AI-powered response with the ability to explore further with follow-up questions and helpful web links. AI Mode does the heavy lifting for you, intelligently organizing information and gives you easy-to-digest breakdowns.

AI Mode is similar to the AI summaries that Google provides for standard searches, but it cuts out typical search results entirely, providing only an AI-based answer that's pulled from different websites and data on the web.

Google is bolstering AI Mode with visual place and product cards that offer an option to tap to get more information. For restaurants, salons, and stores, these cards will provide information like ratings, reviews, hours, and store inventory.

There's also now a dedicated left-side panel that includes an AI history for returning to past searches for follow-up questions.

Separately, Google has also started testing ads for some third-party AI assistants. According to Bloomberg, Google's AdSense network is running ads in some chatbot conversations, and Google confirmed that AdSense for Search is available for websites that want to show ads in their conversational AI experiences.

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[WarmWinterHat]

How about letting me disable the AI results in standard google searches?

No? Guess I'll stick to DDG.

 

[dannyyankou]

I got this as an option a month ago.

 

[WilliApple]

Is that the Dynamic Island 💀

 

[xmarcuswildx]

Is that the Dynamic Island 💀

No you goof that’s a search box.

 

[Veinticinco]

Strange how anything denoted "AI" seems to have very quickly become a byword or trope for data harvesting.

Should be called Zuckerberg's Law.

 

[mashdots]

Friendly reminder that if you append &udm=14 to your search URL, you'll be able to search with out all the other unnecessary stuff google tries to build in (including AI). I have google search with that query param as my ∂efault engine in brave and i never have to deal with AI stuff on my desktop browser.

 

[AppleWes]

How about letting me disable the AI results in standard google searches?

Exactly. Not a fan of AI search results and have seen/heard people quote them as fact when they're wrong.

 

[Dougglas]

So search results can be even more wrong.

 

[Zapski]

There’s no bottom to this pit, is there?

 

[turbineseaplane]

There’s no bottom to this pit, is there?

Doesn't seem like it ..

Everyone is getting forced to sit down and "take it"

 

[picpicmac]

So search results can be even more wrong.

Until the AI become presuppositionalists, in which case they can never be wrong.

 

[AppleofyourI]

Their AI search results are almost exclusively incorrect. It’s completely unreliable.

 

[svish]

AI summary can be useful but not sure how only AI answer will be helpful. Will try it out once I get access to it.

 

[CarpalMac]

How about letting me disable the AI results in standard google searches?

No? Guess I'll stick to DDG.

Not much help for the phone, but I use this on my Mac:

Hide Google AI Overviews â Get this Extension for ð¦ Firefox (en-GB)

Download Hide Google AI Overviews for Firefox. Hide annoying Google AI Overviews.

addons.mozilla.org

 

[Bustycat]

Friendly reminder that if you append &udm=14 to your search URL, you'll be able to search with out all the other unnecessary stuff google tries to build in (including AI). I have google search with that query param as my ∂efault engine in brave and i never have to deal with AI stuff on my desktop browser.

For those who just want a homepage to &udm=14: https://udm14.org