Starting today, AI Mode in Google Search is open to all Labs users in the US (no more waitlist). Plus, we’re adding new features to help you get things done - from shopping to planning your next local outing.
More details below 🧵
AI Mode in Search introduces new reasoning and tools under the hood with a custom version of Gemini models. For any question, it makes a plan, breaks it down into related subtopics, and runs multiple Google searches to find the most helpful and reliable info.
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The redesigned Results about you tool protects your privacy by proactively scanning for and helping you remove results containing personal information, like phone numbers and addresses. We're also making it easier to request removals directly on Search.
Today we're launching a new experiment called AI Mode in Google Search. It uses Gemini 2.0 to help with questions that involve exploration, comparisons or reasoning. We're also expanding AI Overviews to more people. Learn more.
🧵New updates in Search:
📝 Gemini 2.0 is now in AI Overviews and helping with hard questions like coding and advanced math.
🔓You can now access AI Overviews without signing in.
The Dec. 2024 core update is rolling out, and we expect it will complete in two weeks.
If you're wondering why there's a core update this month after one last month, we have different core systems we're always improving. This past blog post explains more:
Today we released the November 2024 core update. We'll add it to our ranking release history page in the near future and update when the rollout is complete. For more on core updates:
Over the years, we’ve expanded Search so you can ask a question in many ways — from typing a query to humming a tune.
Today, we're introducing even more new AI-powered ways to search what you see and hear. Learn more ↓
We know many people, including those in the research community, value seeing previous versions of webpages when available. That’s why beginning today, we're adding links to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to our "About this result" panel, to give people quick context and
I talked with @rustybrick this week about our latest search update, especially about creators. Not everything from the interview made it into the story (it was a long interview!), so I wanted to share a bit more and highlight some things that I thought were especially important