Google is testing Search without the ‘Google Search’ button
General technologyAIGoogle is testing Search without the 'Google Search' buttonAre you feeling lucky?By Taylor Kerns•Aug 10, 2026 — 10:17 AM ET•0•Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityFollow us on Google DiscoverAdd us as preferred sourceTL;DR Google seems to be testing a new layout for its Search homepage. The updated layout removes the Google Search button, replacing it with three shortcuts to AI features. Google’s always looking for more ways to nudge users toward its AI features, and this week, the company’s testing another AI-focused tweak to Search.
- ▪General technologyAIGoogle is testing Search without the 'Google Search' buttonAre you feeling lucky?By Taylor Kerns•Aug 10, 2026 — 10:17 AM ET•0•Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityFollow us on Google DiscoverAdd us as preferred sourceTL;DR
- ▪The updated layout removes the Google Search button, replacing it with three shortcuts to AI features.
- ▪Google’s always looking for more ways to nudge users toward its AI features, and this week, the company’s testing another AI-focused tweak to Search.
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| Original publisher | Android Authority |
| Canonical URL | https://www.androidauthority.com/google-search-homepage-ai-3696476/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:17:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-10T14:20:45.086Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-10T14:20:45.086Z |
| 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 | EOX0zMa3cx3I · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| 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 |
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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.
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