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At this year’s Google I/O, the tech giant unveiled sweeping AI upgrades to Google Search, fundamentally changing how users interact with the web. Since launching AI Overviews last year, Google has reported a 10% surge in search usage in key markets like the U.S. and India, as users increasingly rely on AI for complex, long-form, and multimodal queries.

Now, Google is taking AI integration even further with AI Mode, a new feature rolling out in the U.S. that offers advanced reasoning, deeper web exploration, and real-time multimodal assistance. Powered by Gemini 2.5, Google’s most intelligent model, AI Mode breaks down queries into subtopics, scouring the web for hyper-relevant content and delivering expert-level responses with citations.

Key AI-Powered Search Upgrades:

• Deep Search: Generates detailed, fully cited reports by analyzing hundreds of sources in minutes.
• Live Capabilities: Users can converse with Search in real-time using their camera (e.g., troubleshooting projects or learning new concepts).
• Agentic Features: Handles tasks like booking tickets, making reservations, and even shopping via AI-powered checkout.
• Personalization: Tailors results using past searches and connected Google apps (e.g., suggesting restaurants based on travel plans).
• Data Visualization: Creates custom charts and graphs for sports, finance, and research queries.

Google’s shift from information retrieval to AI-driven intelligence marks one of the biggest transformations in Search’s history. With AI Mode now widely available, the company aims to make Search not just a tool, but an interactive, agentic assistant—reinventing how we find answers, make decisions, and get things done online.