A new era for AI Search
A significant upgrade to AI Search has been announced, introducing new features that enhance user interaction. The intelligent AI-powered Search box is designed to make asking questions more intuitive and efficient. This upgrade marks the most substantial change to Search in over 25 years, aiming to improve how users engage with information.
- ▪The new AI-powered Search box is now the default model in AI Mode globally.
- ▪Users can ask follow-up questions seamlessly, maintaining context throughout their search.
- ▪The upgrade allows for searching across various modalities, including text, images, and videos.
Google AI Blog files mainly under ai. We currently carry 15 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Google AI Blog |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 17:45:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T17:54:57.876Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T17:54:57.876Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Breadcrumb Products & Platforms Products Search A new era for AI Search { "reading_time": "[[read\u002Dtime]] min read" } May 19, 2026 · Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link We’re bringing our advanced model capabilities to Search with new AI features, enabling you to use agents just by asking a question. We’re also introducing a new, intelligent AI-powered Search box, marking its biggest upgrade in over 25 years. Elizabeth Reid VP, Search Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link { "@context": "https://schema.org/", "@type": "VideoObject", "name": "What’s New in Search", "description": "Text that reads "The best of a search engine with the best of AI"", "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/p6EBMG8OEBI/maxresdefault.webp", "uploadDate":…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Google AI Blog.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Google AI Blog
