Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with AI Overviews

Enlarge / “Google will do the Googling for you,” says firm’s search chief. (credit: Google)

Search is still important to Google, but soon it will change. At its all-in-one AI Google I/O event Tuesday, the company introduced a host of AI-enabled features coming to Google Search at various points in the near future, which will “do more for you than you ever imagined.”

“Google will do the Googling for you,” said Liz Reid, Google’s head of Search.

It’s not AI in every search, but it will seemingly be hard to avoid a lot of offers to help you find, plan, and brainstorm things. “AI Overviews,” the successor to the Search Generative Experience, will provide summary answers to questions, along with links to sources. You can also soon submit a video as a search query, perhaps to identify objects or provide your own prompts by voice.