By @CNET
Publication Date: 2026-01-21 14:54:00
You can now access Google’s AI tool Gemini 3 Pro in Google Search via AI Mode. It’s shaking up search behavior because now you can ask all your chatbot-like questions directly in Google’s Search interface.
If you find yourself toggling between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google, now you can centralize some of that activity. With Gemini 3 Pro in Search, it will not only answer your question but also attempt to read your intent and provide more information than you’ve asked for.
As a multimodal AI model, it can handle text, images, video, code, reasoning and planning, all in one system.
Google Search with Gemini 3 Pro launched in November 2025. Here are five real-world tasks — with prompts included — that you might like to use it for. (And before you start, here’s how to train AI to get the best answers, ideas on what to use it for, some prompting hacks, what to watch out for and how to stay safe using chatbots.)
Getting set up
First up, head to Google. Click on AI Mode, then…