Google Is Rolling Out AI Mode To Everyone In the US (engadget.com)
(Tuesday May 20, 2025 @05:20PM (BeauHD)
from the new-era-of-Search dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/2035200/google-is-rolling-out-ai-mode-to-everyone-in-the-us
- Source link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-is-rolling-out-ai-mode-to-everyone-in-the-us-174917628.html
Google has [1]unveiled a major overhaul of its search engine with the introduction of A.I. Mode -- a new feature that works like a chatbot, enabling users to ask follow-up questions and receive detailed, conversational answers. Announced at the I/O 2025 conference, the feature is now being [2]rolled out to all Search users in the U.S . Engadget reports:
> Google first began previewing AI Mode with testers in its Labs program at the start of March. Since then, it has been gradually rolling out the feature to more people, including in recent weeks regular Search users. At its keynote today, Google shared a number of updates coming to AI Mode as well, including some new tools for shopping, as well as the ability to compare ticket prices for you and create custom charts and graphs for queries on finance and sports.
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> For the uninitiated, AI Mode is a chatbot built directly into Google Search. It lives in a separate tab, and was designed by the company to tackle more complicated queries than people have historically used its search engine to answer. For instance, you can use AI Mode to generate a comparison between different fitness trackers. Before today, the chatbot was powered by Gemini 2.0. Now it's running a [3]custom version of Gemini 2.5 . What's more, Google plans to bring many of AI Mode's capabilities to other parts of the Search experience.
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> Looking to the future, Google plans to bring Deep Search, an offshoot of its Deep Research mode, to AI Mode. [...] Another new feature that's coming to AI Mode builds on the work Google did with Project Mariner, the web-surfing AI agent the company began previewing with "trusted testers" at the end of last year. This addition gives AI Mode the ability to complete tasks for you on the web. For example, you can ask it to find two affordable tickets for the next MLB game in your city. AI Mode will compare "hundreds of potential" tickets for you and return with a few of the best options. From there, you can complete a purchase without having done the comparison work yourself. [...] All of the new AI Mode features Google previewed today will be available to Labs users first before they roll out more broadly.
[1] https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-ai-mode-update/
[2] https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-is-rolling-out-ai-mode-to-everyone-in-the-us-174917628.html
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/1915256/googles-gemini-25-models-gain-deep-think-reasoning
> Google first began previewing AI Mode with testers in its Labs program at the start of March. Since then, it has been gradually rolling out the feature to more people, including in recent weeks regular Search users. At its keynote today, Google shared a number of updates coming to AI Mode as well, including some new tools for shopping, as well as the ability to compare ticket prices for you and create custom charts and graphs for queries on finance and sports.
>
> For the uninitiated, AI Mode is a chatbot built directly into Google Search. It lives in a separate tab, and was designed by the company to tackle more complicated queries than people have historically used its search engine to answer. For instance, you can use AI Mode to generate a comparison between different fitness trackers. Before today, the chatbot was powered by Gemini 2.0. Now it's running a [3]custom version of Gemini 2.5 . What's more, Google plans to bring many of AI Mode's capabilities to other parts of the Search experience.
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> Looking to the future, Google plans to bring Deep Search, an offshoot of its Deep Research mode, to AI Mode. [...] Another new feature that's coming to AI Mode builds on the work Google did with Project Mariner, the web-surfing AI agent the company began previewing with "trusted testers" at the end of last year. This addition gives AI Mode the ability to complete tasks for you on the web. For example, you can ask it to find two affordable tickets for the next MLB game in your city. AI Mode will compare "hundreds of potential" tickets for you and return with a few of the best options. From there, you can complete a purchase without having done the comparison work yourself. [...] All of the new AI Mode features Google previewed today will be available to Labs users first before they roll out more broadly.
[1] https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-ai-mode-update/
[2] https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-is-rolling-out-ai-mode-to-everyone-in-the-us-174917628.html
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/1915256/googles-gemini-25-models-gain-deep-think-reasoning
To users of Google products* (Score:2)
by Gravis Zero ( 934156 )
They can try but if I don't use any of their products then they ain't rolling it out to everyone in the us.
Is it one way? (Score:2)
by Fly Swatter ( 30498 )
If the user can criticize or correct the search bot when it inevitably produces incorrect information, then maybe they have something.
And yes I realize this could be abused, terribly. But so are the users, er I mean product.
Can I block it at my router? (Score:2)
by OrangeTide ( 124937 )
Can I setup an HTTP proxy or something that black lists the related Google API urls?
Doubly glad I don't use google (Score:2)
by BishopBerkeley ( 734647 )
I get to avoid shitty search results AND hallucinations.
Power (Score:2)
by ThurstonMoore ( 605470 )
Imagine how much more power this is going to require?
Goodbye internet (Score:2)
I'm dealing with a fixit ticket in the US, Google and Microsoft both successfully hallucinated steps I'd need to do for this in their little AI bullshit windows. But fuck accuracy and fuck the very existence of the rest of the internet, when a company has a chance to sell marginally more advertising by keeping users on their platform for even longer they take it!