More AI comes to your Google search results

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As a Google AI overviews for the search last yearIt didn’t go over so well. The company’s AI made some pretty massive mistakes with its resultsMany of them became viral. In response to it, Google withdrew the function, revised it and slowly introduced it back into the masses. You probably noticed it.

This monthGoogle continues its work to add AI to search –whether you want it or not. First it leads a new version of AI overviews that is supplied by electricity Gemini 2.0The company’s latest AI model. According to Google, this update helps with “more difficult questions”, e.g. B. coding, mathematics and multimodals (input requests based on various types of media). In addition, young people can now see AI overviews, as can users without a Google account. Hurray.

Introduction of AI mode

However, Google’s larger AI announcement is something that the company is currently testing: AI mode. See Google says that you heard of “Power Users” that you are looking for more of your Google search for AI. In response to this, you can use AI mode to ask the AI multi-part questions that offers more advanced argument, thinking and multimodal functions.

It sounds like a more complex AI overview on paper, but it’s a bit more nuanced. The AI mode is a separate tab for the search that transforms the user interface into more of what you would expect from Chatgpt or Gemini. Google says that this experience should combine what several search queries would have led to one: you ask the AI something complicated. It greets it through them (shows their thinking on the way) and provides a complete answer with several results, demands and summaries – the sources for each of his generations.

According to Google, AI mode uses a “query fan-out” technique to generate its results. Essentially, it searches for several relatives and combines these results with the answer they see at the end. The AI mode comes from many different data points for its results, including weaving results, Google’s knowledge graphicand shopping data.

Google uses the following query to demonstrate this approach: “What is the difference in the sleep tracking functions between an intelligent ring, a smartwatch and the tracking mat?” The AI mode allegedly accepts this multi-part question, develops a multi-stage “plan” to carry out a number of search processes to find the information and change this plan according to the results.

This is obviously obviously in progress (since the AI search is across the board), so that Google says that the AI mode does not constantly do it. In fact, you may just see a result of web links if the program believes that the AI result is not good enough.

I am not sure how useful the AI mode actually is, especially in comparison to the search for Gemini or a conventional Google search (especially without the AI). I have to wait until Google can try out the function for myself before I make a judgment. My guess based on my current experience with AI is that I will prefer the usual search method.

How to try Google’s AI mode

If you are interested in trying out Google’s new AI mode, there are a few ways to enter yourself. If you have one Google One Ai Premium Subscribers, they will be one of the first to be invited to try the AI mode in laboratories.

However, if you are not a subscriber, you have to jump onto the waiting list. Register in your Google account, Then go to Google Labs. Under “Introduction of the AI mode experiment” “Wait List”. Google then takes you to a page on which you can apply for the function. You can confirm that you are on the waiting list.