google is Adding More AI Overviews and a New 'AI Mode' To Search (theverge.com) 8
google announced Wednesday it is expanding its AI Overviews to more query types and users worldwide, including those not logged into google accounts, while introducing a new "AI Mode" chatbot feature. AI Mode, which resembles competitors like Perplexity or ChatGPT Search, will initially be limited to google One AI Premium subscribers who enable it through the Labs section of Search.
The feature delivers AI-generated answers with supporting links interspersed throughout, powered by google's search index. "What we're finding from people who are using AI Overviews is that they're really bringing different kinds of questions to google," said Robby Stein, VP of product on the Search team. "They're more complex questions, that may have been a little bit harder before." google is also upgrading AI Overviews with its Gemini 2.0 model, which Stein says will improve responses for math, coding and reasoning-based queries.
The feature delivers AI-generated answers with supporting links interspersed throughout, powered by google's search index. "What we're finding from people who are using AI Overviews is that they're really bringing different kinds of questions to google," said Robby Stein, VP of product on the Search team. "They're more complex questions, that may have been a little bit harder before." google is also upgrading AI Overviews with its Gemini 2.0 model, which Stein says will improve responses for math, coding and reasoning-based queries.
I had to 'gpt' what the heck was 'google' .. (Score:1)
for me google usage dropped to almost zero since gpt-3, but no special ai preferred neither, just trying the new AIs as they are coming out without really caring about the company ..
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I use Grok and openai both. I've almost completely stopped using duckduckgo (switched away from google years ago except when duck fails me). AI is a slightly different experience but really saves a lot of time by distilling many information sources into a nice concise bullet list and summary.
Happy Kagi user (Score:2)
The first thing I noticed is not having to wade through endless product pages for queries that were obviously not about buying crap, but it is well worth it several times over for me.
brave is better (Score:1)
brave's search engine is top notch and their AI summarizations are by far the best out there. its got a chat bot called leo and other functions in their browser, i've only played with them a little. their browser is great tho, i love it. its a chromium based browser so all ur stuff transfers over.
The truth is out there. (Score:2)
Well, not anymore.
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The truthiness [wikipedia.org] is all that's left out there now.
Perfect control over search (Score:3)
Don't use it, don't trust it or we will end up in cyberpunk dystopia.
Re: Perfect control over search (Score:2)
Qu? (Score:2)
All I need is a search engine that completely removes Quora pages from its output.