With AI Mode, Google Search Is About to Get Even Chattier

Google is rolling out its AI Mode search experience to everyone in the US starting today. The chatbot-style addition to the company's search engine results page is designed to answer longer queries and uses Google's AI model to generate full responses based on--and linking back to--indexed websites on the open web. AI Mode is Google's direct response to the release of search engines from Silicon Valley startups like OpenAI and Perplexity, which provide chatbot-style answers to questions and queries. If all of this feels like déjà vu, that's because at last year's Google I/O developer conference, the company rolled out AI Mode's precursor, AI Overviews. In 2024, Google started to use its machine intelligence model to summarize the contents of the web and plaster a block of text at the top of the results for some queries.