… Do you expect all of these products—AI Mode, AI Overviews, Gemini, and Search—to be one thing at some point? It kind of depends on how usage evolves. Today, the way we think about it is Search is becoming AI search, and the Gemini app is your personal assistant. …
Many website owners and publishers have relied heavily on Google Search as their primary source of visitors and have complained about declines in traffic over the past few years as the tech giant has prominently featured generative AI summaries in search results, through AI Overviews and AI Mode. …
… Google enabled these changes to generate more personalized answers for users—with some high-profile flubs as part of its growing pains. AI Overviews and AI Mode further abstracted my daily experience of using a search engine. …
… As an example, Google showed a search about black holes, and its AI agent generated a video that visually explains the process, plopping it right into the search results. …
… And again, like you said, we've known that Google was headed in this direction, but I do think it's a really interesting moment for the company because search is such a big part of its business model and ads on search are such a big part of its business model. …
… OpenAI has a chance to better monetize its user base as online search habits shift and more money is poured into generative AI-focused advertising. “The billions of dollars that are currently spent on search ads are going to be channeled to this new form of ad, so it's a huge multibillion-dollar ma… …
… This launch is limited to mobile devices, available on both Android and iOS, with a desktop version expected in the near future. You can’t opt out of Ask Maps or hide it, just like many of the new AI features from Google. Ask Maps appears as the first tab under the search bar. …
… Much like the changes Google is implementing in Search, which brings agentic task automation without needing to leave the search experience, Spark is Google’s chance to push AI agents further into the public zeitgeist. …
… Other labs, including Humans&, also aim to develop AI systems that prioritize human collaboration. Some prominent economists have called for AI researchers and companies to build systems in this way, focusing on human empowerment rather than replacement. …
… Similar to other announcements from Google I/O surrounding Google Search, many of the new changes to Flow are part of the company’s larger attempt to make AI agents, essentially automated software taskmasters, and vibe coding, building bespoke features with natural language prompts to AI, more main… …