Last year at I/O, Google announced how it was jamming generative AI into search by showing more people AI overviews (summaries) when they searched for things. It was a change to the world-search order, in which Google was deprioritizing links and, as I described it at the time, taking the index cards for the screenplay it had written for the past twenty-five years and throwing them to the wind.
This year, Google’s going to be talking a lot about AI Mode, a tab within the native search app that is supposedly going to be more conversational and have a longer memory.
