[TECH] Google launched AI Mode for the public today (5/20/2025), which is now featured on the top tabs of the Google search bar. Much like ChatGPT, it offers an exciting, innovative way to search, a bit different than their current AI preview (which certainly has its hiccups), AI Mode will offer a chatbox, and to the left will store your previous questions. To the right, sources are listed.
Google AI Mode uses Gemini to supply:
-Conversationalist answers
-Information from multiple sources
-Comprehensive answers
-Personalized content
Try AI Mode here. It's free!
If you're on mobile, it will require a Google update.
AI mode provides ease of access to aggregated information, and it’s fun how simple it’s become to learn anything (and everything) beneath (and beyond) the sun. However, just as with regular Google searches, this aggregation can also come with bias and constraints. Google provides handpicked answers from carefully selected sources while overlooking millions of other perspectives. The results before your eyes, a few clicks deep, are never the whole story. If you care, you can use “unbiased,” private alternatives to Google here. I found those, ironically, by searching for them on Google.