Google’s unleashes ‘A.I. Mode’ in the next phase of its journey to change search
- On May 20, 2025, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai revealed Google's new AI Mode during the company’s annual developer conference held in California.
- The release follows a year-long update to Google's search engine, driven by AI advances and increased competition from rivals like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
- AI Mode, now available to all U.S. Users, enables conversational, multi-part queries and integrates Google's Gemini 2.5 AI model for personalized, expert-like answers.
- About 1.5 billion users engage with AI Overviews monthly, yet clickthrough rates from search results have dropped nearly 30%, as users often find answers without visiting other sites.
- Google aims to maintain search dominance by expanding AI Mode's features, including agentic tasks like ticket purchases, while addressing challenges to publishers and legal scrutiny over monopoly claims.
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Google Rolls Out AI Mode for Search, Leaving Websites with Shrinking Traffic
Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a year-long makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people get information and curtailing the flow of internet traffic to websites. The next phase outlined at Google’s annual developers conference includes releasing a new “AI mode” option in the United States. The feature makes interacting with Google’s search engine more like having a con…
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