Google has upgraded Search Live in AI Mode to support more fluid and expressive conversations using its latest Gemini audio model. The update allows real time changes to voice tone, speed, and style ...

Circle to Search’s text search feature now defaults to Google’s AI Mode. Previously, any additional text queries in Circle to Search would default to the standard image search. The feature was teased ...

Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google, said on Friday that Google’s AI Mode will be the “default” search experience for Google Search “soon.” We know Google said AI Mode is the future of ...

A new Plus button has appeared on the search bar of Google Search, and it aims to transform the experience by taking users directly to the AI Mode feature. Google Adds a 'Plus' Button to Improve ...

A decade or so ago, I thought Google needed a newer mission than “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Having never lived without the Search engine, I ...

Google is rolling out AI shopping updates across Search and Gemini, including conversational queries, agentic checkout, and AI-powered local business calling. AI Mode in Search now supports ...

Earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued penalties against Google for monopolizing the search engine market, he stopped short of the harshest ones — like forcing the breakup of ...

Google’s Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google, explained that Google Search is converging with AI in a new manner that builds on three pillars of AI. The implications for online publishers, SEOs, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I report on media as well as its intersection with news and culture. [Sept. 8: This post has been updated, below.] Google just ...

Britain's competition watchdog proposed Wednesday that websites be allowed to opt out of having content used by Google's "AI ...