Google Turns Search Conversational as AI Overviews Flow Into AI Mode
For more than two decades, Google Search has functioned as a gateway to information rather than an active participant in understanding it. Users typed queries, scanned links, and stitched together answers themselves. That long-standing paradigm is now undergoing its most significant transformation yet. With Google’s latest update, users can move directly from AI Overviews—the AI-generated summaries at the top of search results—into AI Mode conversations, enabling fluid, contextual, back-and-forth interactions without restarting a query. This change marks a decisive shift in Google’s vision for Search: away from a static list of links and toward a dynamic, conversational intelligence layer that … Read more